PALATIUM e-Publications
Series Editors: Krista De Jonge and Pieter Martens
Volume 5 The Interior as an Embodiment of Power
Volume 4 Looking for Leisure
Volume 3 Virtual Palaces, Part II
Volume 2 Virtual Palaces, Part I
Volume 1 The Habsburgs and their Courts
Volume 5
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The Interior as an Embodiment of Power
The Image of the Princely Patron and its
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This volume is dedicated to the study of the in- and outside of princely residences and of their setup as the stage for a developing European early modern court culture. At a time of increasing aristocratization (1400-1700) and with many new nascent princely courts, both the princely person and the performance of princely power required an appropriate type of elaborate backdrop as its setting. Even though such an interest in the palace interior and its functions is not entirely new, interior architecture and court culture have only recently come to be seen as two sides of the same medal: embodiment and expression of the princely presence.
Therefore, the essays included focus in particular on diverse types of functions that palaces and apartments, state rooms and privy chambers had to fulfil at certain periods and in certain residential contexts between the ages of feudalism and absolutism at courts in London, Edinburgh, Neuburg am Inn, Karlstein and Prague, Cervený Kamen and Ludwigsburg. They compare and contrast specific local examples with international trends such as, for example, the palace and court ceremonial developed at or adapted to diverse circumstances in Burgundy, Spain or Lithuania.
Consequently, the aim of this volume consists of the combination of personal and dynastic ambitions with fashionable trends and court etiquette followed by royalty and minor princes alike during a period of calculated magnificence. It considers processional routes towards the presence of the ruler or towards its image. Thereby, it helps to define the complementary roles of residential interiors and of the courtly personnel at the same time.
The ten papers collected in this volume were first presented at the PALATIUM colloquium The Interior, held in Bamberg in October 2013.
Contributors: Annette Cremer, Krista De Jonge, Annamaria Ersek, Ingrid Halászová-Štibraná, Alexandra Nancy Johnson, Astrid Lang, Nicole Riegel, Ulrike Seeger, Franciszek Skibinski, Katherine Wilson.
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Looking for LeisureCourt Residences and their Satellites, 1400-1700
Edited by Sylva Dobalová and Ivan P. Muchka Download PDF [17 MB] |
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This volume focuses on the leisure buildings – often called casino, palazotto or Lusthaus – which formed an integral part of princely residential complexes in Europe in the period 1400–1700. The aim of this collection is to study these satellite buildings as counterparts to the main palaces. The relatively small size of these structures belies their importance. They took on representative roles and developed certain ideological programmes that would have been difficult to achieve in the larger residential buildings.
Many of these buildings were meant only for seasonal use. Their primary role was as a place of rest, leisure and repose. This relaxation could either take a contemplative form or could include such vigorous activities as hunting, sports and various court festivities. The case studies presented here illustrate the shared principles of these recreational buildings and investigate how their architects and patrons attempted to realize a ‘paradise on earth’ and managed to bring the human world into harmony with the natural world.
Discussing examples from all over Europe – from Central Europe via Italy and France to Denmark and Scotland – the papers in this volume address four different aspects of ‘palazotto culture’: the terminology that was used to identify these small palaces, which reflects the wide variety of needs they fulfilled; the functions and typologies of these buildings; their artistic decorations; and their gardens and natural surroundings.
The seventeen papers collected in this volume were first presented at the PALATIUM colloquium Looking for Leisure, held in Prague in June 2014.
Contributors: Marilyn Brown, Marie-Claude Canova-Green, Daria Churkina, Michele Danieli, Krista De Jonge, Sylva Dobalová, Martina Frank, Poul Grinder-Hansen, Jaroslava Hausenblasová, Jan Ivanega, Ondrej Jakubec, Dirk Jacob Jansen, Markus Jeitler, Ulla Kjaer, Wolfgang Lippmann, Sarah Lynch, Martin Mádl, Ivan Muchka, Antonio Russo.
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Virtual Palaces, Part II
Lost Palaces and their Afterlife
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This volume deals with digital reconstructions and visualizations of palaces, castles, and other kinds of residential architecture of the early modern period. It focuses not so much on the digital modelling of extant buildings, but rather on the virtual reconstruction of ‘lost’ buildings – in particular of palaces destroyed or drastically altered, or which were never actually built in the first place.
These diverse case studies presented here explore a range of approaches and methods of using virtual reconstructions as tools for both scientific research and dissemination to a wider public. They address problems such as the visualization of uncertainties, the dynamic modelling of a building’s evolution through time, and the use of digital reconstructions as repositories of data and knowledge.
The numerous digital models and associated images discussed in this volume display an enormous variety in terms of the underlying technology, data conceptualization and visual style. Such adaptability means that this new medium finds considerable application in architectural history and related disciplines. It also means that digital reconstructions ought to be regarded as cultural products and therefore become objects of scholarly research in their own right.
The thirteen papers collected in this volume were first presented at the PALATIUM workshop Virtual Palaces, Part II held in Munich in April 2012.
Contributors: Stefan Breitling, Martin Buba, Tom Chandler, Krista De Jonge, Jan Fuhrmann, Alexandra Gago da Câmara, Marc Grellert, Franziska Haas, Sven Havemann, Stephan Hoppe, Peter Heinrich Jahn, Thomas Köhler, Dominik Lengyel, Piet Lombaerde, Ana Catarina G. Lopes, Heike Messemer, Sander Münster, Helena Murteira, Marc Muylle, Martin Polkinghorne, Paulo Rodrigues, Michael Rykl, Christian Seitz, Catherine Toulouse, Markus Wacker, Olaf Wagener, Dirk Welich.
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Virtual Palaces, Part IDigitizing and Modelling Palaces
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This volume explores the potential role of virtual models for scientific research on historic palaces. The rise of digital surveying and modelling techniques has revolutionized the ways in which historic buildings such as court residences can be studied. These new techniques offer unprecedented opportunities for architectural historians but also lead to new challenges.
One challenge is the reliability and verifiability of the data that is used to make digital models, whether surveys of extant buildings or reconstructions of lost buildings. Another is the use of virtual palaces as research instruments in their own right – not just to communicate results to the wider public, but as genuine research tools that help visualize and clarify hypotheses about issues such as construction phases or the spaces’ ceremonial use.
The papers in this volume offer multidisciplinary case studies that focus on the surveying, recording, digitizing and modelling of extant palaces in their present state. They also look at the possible uses of the resulting digital models as instruments for further research and as vehicles for the preservation and propagation of knowledge.
The five papers collected in this volume were first presented at the PALATIUM workshop Virtual Palaces, Part I held in Leuven in November 2011.
Contributors: Anca Bratuleanu, Raffaella Brumana, Branka Cuca, Stefano D’Avino, Krista De Jonge, Livio De Luca, Pieter Martens, Giovanni Mataloni, João Neto, Maria Neto, Daniela Oreni, Hafizur Rahaman, Md Mizanur Rashid, Noémie Renaudin, Bertrand Rondot, Ricardo Silva.
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The Habsburgs and their Courts in Europe, 1400–1700Between Cosmopolitism and Regionalism
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This volume examines the architecture and culture at the various courts of one of Europe’s most important royal dynasties, the Habsburgs. It looks for a specific Habsburg idiom in the sphere of princely representation at the courts in Madrid, Brussels, Vienna, Prague, Bratislava and Budapest, and contrasts the supranational features of this dynastic identity to its regional incarnations.
The nucleus of princely representation was the court residence. Hence the Habsburgs’ official apartments are studied in relation to their court ceremony, to see if a unifying model was adopted in the different palaces in Brussels, Madrid and Central Europe. The supranational dynastic identity developed by the Habsburgs is then compared with local forms of identity, as articulated by the nobility in Bohemia, Hungary and Poland. This shows how the palaces and their decoration also expressed loyalty to the traditions of the homeland, so-called Landespatriotismus.
Other essays discuss how the specific religious practices of the Habsburgs, known as Pietas Austriaca, affected the art, culture and architecture of the different courts, and particularly the structure and function of their sacred spaces. The final section examines manifestations of the Habsburgs’ self-representation as ‘defenders of the Faith’ against the Muslims in Spain and Central Europe, as well as other ‘Turkish’ echoes in palatial art in Spain and Austria.
The seventeen papers collected in this volume were first presented at the PALATIUM conference The Habsburgs and their Courts in Europe held in Vienna in December 2011.
Contributors: Pál Ács, Jan Bazant, Annick Born, Ingrid Ciulisová, Krista De Jonge, Dagmar Eichberger, Bernardo J. García García, Ilaria Hoppe, Annemarie Jordan Gschwend, Herbert Karner, Eva-Bettina Krems, Bruno Meier, Ivan Prokop Muchka, Milton Pedro Dias Pacheco, Nicole Riegel, Larry Silver, Madelon Simons, Andrea Sommer-Mathis, Cezary Taracha, Werner Telesko, Catherine Wilkinson Zerner.
Session Proceedings
Papers of the PALATIUM session at EAHN Brussels 2012:
Court Residences in Early Modern Europe (1400-1700). Architecture, Ceremony, and International Relations
Edited by Konrad Ottenheym and Stephan Hoppe
in: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of the European Architectural History Network, Brussels 31 May - 2 June 2012, ed. Hilde Heynen, Janina Gosseye, Brussels: Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België, 2012, pp. 65-84.
ISBN 978-90-6569-1026
Papers of the PALATIUM session at EAHN Turin 2014:
Fortified Palaces in Early Modern Europe 1400-1700
Edited by Pieter Martens, Konrad Ottenheym and Nuno Senos
in: Investigating and Writing Architectural History: Subjects, Methodologies and Frontiers. Papers from the Third EAHN International Meeting, ed. Michela Rosso, Turin: Politecnico di Torino, 2014, pp. 33-91.
ISBN 978-88-8202-0484