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PALATIUM. Court Residences as Places of Exchange in Late Medieval and Modern Europe, 1400-1700

Munich Residenz (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften)

Organisation : ESF Research Networking Programme PALATIUM & Institut für Kunstgeschichte – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

 

Over the past five years PALATIUM has studied European court residences in the period 1400-1700. The world of courts constituted a network of truly European scale and international character, and various aspects of its architecture have been studied in their connectivity during several conferences and workshops. This final symposium aims at bringing together the results of these past meetings and will draw some conclusions about the project’s central themes. The symposium will compare the solutions created in different European court circles concerning three main areas of courtly life and symbolism: the layout of the rooms, the role of sacred spaces, and the visual iconography of the buildings. The aim is to see which common patterns in architectural design existed within the international court network of the early modern period, and to what extent we can identify more regional or local solutions in residential architecture.

PROGRAM

Wednesday 4 March

• 8.30 Opening | Registration
• 9.00 Introduction Stephan HOPPE (Ludwig‐Maximilians‐Universität Munich) Krista DE JONGE (University of Leuven, PALATIUM Chair)

Session I. The Spatial Organisation and Ceremonial Use of the Apartment System: Different Models

Session chair: Dagmar EICHBERGER (University of Heidelberg/University of Trier)

• 9.45 Krista DE JONGE (University of Leuven) Living in the Burgundian Manner from the Low Countries to Spain (1480–1630). On a ‘Model’, its Transmutations, and its Assimilation by the High Nobility of the Habsburg Court during the Long Sixteenth Century

10.30 Coffee Break

• 11.00 Stephan HOPPE (Ludwig‐Maximilians‐Universität Munich) The Stuben Apartment System, its Development and Use at the Lesser German Residence Schloesser (1470–1648)
• 11.45 Monique CHATENET (Centre André Chastel, INHA, Paris) From Valois to Bourbon: The Origin and Development of the Grand Appartement

12.30 Lunch Session chair: Krista DE JONGE (University of Leuven)

• 13.30 Nuno SENOS (CHAM, Universidade Nova de Lisboa) The Apartment System in Portugal in the Sixteenth century
• 14.15 José Eloy HORTAL MUÑOZ (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid) Reality or Myth. The ‘Domestication’ of the Nobility through the Codification of Space and Ceremonial: Etiquettes and Ordinances of Philip III and Philip IV of Spain (1598–1665)

15.00 Coffee Break

• 15.30 Konrad OTTENHEYM (University of Utrecht) Between Paris and London. The Residences of the Prince of Orange in Seventeenth‐Century Holland
• 16.15 Fabian PERSSON (Linnaeus University) Royal Residences of the North: Sweden and Denmark in the Early Modern Period

17.00 End of Session I

Thursday 5 March

Session II. Interconnected Areas: The Sacred Space and its Place in the Spatial Network of the Residence

Session chair: Stephan HOPPE (Ludwig‐Maximilians‐Universität Munich)

• 9.00 Birgitte BØGGILD JOHANNSEN (National Museum of Denmark) Between Altar, Throne and Tomb: Connecting the Sacred and the Profane in Residential Spaces of Late Medieval and Early Modern Denmark
• 9.45 Simon THURLEY (English Heritage) Sacred Space and the Reformation at the Tudor and Stuart Court

10.30 Coffee Break Session chair: Ute ENGEL (Ludwig‐Maximilians‐Universität Munich)

• 11.00 Ivan Prokop MUCHKA (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) Between the Hofburg in Prague and the Palaces of Wallenstein: The Role of National Patrons, especially St. Wenceslas
• 11.45 Alexandre GADY (Centre André Chastel, Université Paris IV Sorbonne) ‘God Save the (French) King’. Chapels in the Bourbon Palaces (17th–18th centuries)

12.30 Lunch

• 13.30 Paolo CORNAGLIA (Politecnico di Torino) From the Chapel to the Prie‐dieu: Sacred Spaces and Residences at the Court of Savoy (1580–1730)

14.15 End of Session II

14.30 Excursion to Munich Residence

Friday 6 March

Session III. Meaningful Architecture: Exterior and Interior Decoration Programmes and the Semantics of Building

Session chair: Konrad OTTENHEYM (University of Utrecht)

• 9.00 Renate HOLZSCHUH‐HOFER (Bundesdenkmalamt Vienna) The Implementation of the Burgundian Heritage in Central Europe under Ferdinand I, 1521–1564
• 9.45 Heiko LAß (independent scholar, Hannover) Images of Status. Princely and Knightly Residences in the Holy Roman Empire, 1400–1700

10.30 Coffee Break

• 11.00 Matthias MÜLLER (Universität Mainz) Visualizing Princely Virtues: On the Significance of Functional Elements in 15th‐ and 16th‐ Century German Palaces
• 11.45 Barbara ARCISZEWSKA (Warsaw University) Court Architecture and Interior Decoration in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1400–1700: A Reassessment

12.30 Lunch

Session chair: Mark HENGERER (Ludwig‐Maximilians‐Universität Munich)

• 13.30 Herbert KARNER (Austrian Academy of Sciences) The Facade of an Emperor: Leopold I and the Imperial Semantics of the Viennese Hofburg
• 14.15 Christina STRUNCK (Philipps‐Universität Marburg) Architecture and Fiction in Italian Court Residences

15.00 Coffee Break

• 15.30 Sara GALLETTI (Duke University) The Luxembourg Palace of Maria de’ Medici, 1611–1631
• 16.15 Conclusions

• 17.00 PALATIUM Steering Committee Meeting For PALATIUM SC members only

Saturday 7 March

Excursion to Landshut (Trausnitz Castle & Stadtresidenz) For speakers and registered participants

Registration: Free, but registration is required.

Programme, Abstracts, Registration Form: http://www.courtresidences.eu/index.php/events/conferences/munich2015/