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Conferences 07/12/2011 → 10/12/2011

The Habsburgs and their Courts in Europe, 1400-1700. Between Cosmopolitism and Regionalism

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PROGRAMME

Wednesday 7 December

Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Theatersaal

14.00 - 14.30 Registration and Introduction

14.30 - 18.00 PRESENTATIONS BY EARLY-CAREER RESEARCHERS

Chair: Pieter MARTENS (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Andreas PUTH (Universität Leipzig): Habsburg rule and Austrian past visualized: the Wappenwand at Wiener Neustadt and Frederick III’s Repraesentatio Majestatis
Katharina VAN CAUTEREN (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven): ‘Victor Orbis’: the Emperor, the Sultan and the artistic battles of the last world emperor
Madelon SIMONS (University of Amsterdam): Archduke Ferdinand II and his ‘theatrum’ of representation in Prague (1547-1567)
Paola MOLINO (European University Institute, Florence/FWF-project Fugger Zeitung, Vienna): The making of court libraries at the end of the 16th century: the Imperial Library in Vienna and the Real Biblioteca of the Escorial in comparison
Laura FERNANDEZ GONZALEZ (University of Edinburgh): ‘Historia Pro Patria’: the Hall of Battles in El Escorial Monastery and the fame of the Universal Monarch
Milton Pedro DIAS PACHECO (Universidade Nova de Lisboa): Palaces on the edge of the Atlantic: the architectural reformation and the space ritualization of the Portuguese royal residences during the reign of Philip I of Habsburg (1580-1598)
Sara FUENTES LAZARO (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): Stairways to Heaven: dynastic symbolism and illusionistic painting in the Spanish Habsburgs’ palace-monasteries (1666-1692)

Hofburg, Schweizerhof

18.30 - 20.30 CEREMONIAL OPENING

Opening concert (Hofburgmusikkapelle)
Ceremonial Opening (Rittersaal)
Opening Lecture: Larry SILVER (University of Pennsylvania): Europe’s Turkish Nemesis
Reception (for invited guests only) (Ahnensaal)

Thursday 8 December

Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Theatersaal

9.00 - 12.40 ‘REPRAESENTATIO MAJESTATIS’ AND RESIDENCY

Chairs: Krista DE JONGE (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) & Bernardo J. GARCÍA GARCÍA (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): Introduction
Nicole RIEGEL (Universität Würzburg): Bausteine eines Residenzprojekts: Kaiser Maximilian I. in Innsbruck
Renate HOLZSCHUH-HOFER (Bundesdenkmalamt, Wien): Multiple identities of Casa Austria during the 16th century: the function of ‘Residence Architecture’ designed as an enduring component within the culture of presence, ‘Präsenzkultur’, of the early modern time
Ivan Prokop MUCHKA (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague): Architectura ancilla musicae. Architecture in relationship to music at the Habsburg courts in Central Europe
Walter CUPPERI (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München): Reassessing the role of sculpture in the royal residences of Madrid (1568-1636)
Eva-Bettina KREMS (Philipps-Universität Marburg): Transfer of portraits as an indication of political strategies: Dynastic identity and European politics of the Spanish Habsburgs in the middle of the 17th century

14.00 - 17.40 IMPERIAL, ROYAL OR PRINCELY IDENTITY AND REGIONAL PATRIOTISM

Chair: Lubomír KONECNY (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague): Introduction
Dagmar EICHBERGER (Universität Trier & Universität Heidelberg): Official portraits and regional identities. The case of Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519)
Marie-Elizabeth DUCREUX (Centre de Recherches Historiques, EHESS, Paris): Royal blood, wisdom and virtues: Hungarian and Bohemian medieval Holy Rulers’ revival in the 17th century
Jan BAZANT (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague): The Habsburg imperial mythology and Waldstein palace in Prague
Diana DUCHONOVÁ (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava): Between Habsburg influence and Hungarian tradition. The court of Palatine Nicolaus Esterhazy (1625-1645)
Cezary TARACHA (Catholic University, Lublin): The courts of the Spanish and Austrian Habsburgs as related by Jakub Sobieski in the first half of the 17th century

Friday 9 December

09.00 - 13.00 Excursion (speakers only)

Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Theatersaal

14.00 - 18.15 HABSBURG AND MUSLIMS

Chair: Karl VOCELKA (University of Vienna): Introduction
Pál ÁCS (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest): ‘The good and honest Turk’. A European legend in the context of the 16th-century oriental studies in the Habsburg Empire
Annick BORN (Ghent University): Suleiman and Charles V: iconographic discourse and enhancement of power and magnificence
Jochen MARTZ (Technische Universität Dresden): The cultivation of rare tulips in the court gardens of the Ottoman Empire as well as of the Habsburg sphere as an important symbol of power and representation
Aygül AGIR (Istanbul Technical University): The Habsburg ambassadors’ and delegations’ impressions of Istanbul with a special emphasis on the Topkapi Palace (16th century)
Andrea SOMMER-MATHIS (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna): ‘Alla turca’. Turkish elements in theatre and festivities at the Habsburg courts during the 16th and 17th centuries
Catherine WILKINSON ZERNER (Brown University, Providence): The Spanish Habsburgs and the arts of Islamic Iberia

Saturday 10 December

Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Theatersaal

9.00 - 12.40 RELIGIOUS PRACTICES AND THE COURT – I

Chair: Thomas WINKELBAUER (University of Vienna): Introduction
Luc DUERLOO (University of Antwerp): A time and a place for eternity. Dynastic ideology between contingency and performance
Ilaria HOPPE (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): The Villa Poggio Imperiale in Florence under Mary Magdalen of Austria
Werner TELESKO (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna): The ‘Pietas Austriaca’ – a political myth? On the instrumentalisation of piety towards the cross at the Viennese court in the 17th century
Vanessa DE CRUZ MEDINA (Fundación Carlos de Amberes, Madrid): Anna Dorothea at the Descalzas Reales (1622-1693): pious patronage, dynastic networks and forms of representation
Sebastian SCHÜTZE (University of Vienna): Juan Carreño’s ‘Foundation of the Trinitarian Order’ (Louvre) and the Pietas Austriaca

14.00 - 16.00 RELIGIOUS PRACTICES AND THE COURT – II

Chair: Thomas WINKELBAUER (University of Vienna): Introduction
Till-Holger BORCHERT (Groeningemuseum Bruges): Dynastical memory: Habsburg, Burgundy and the Empire
Annemarie JORDAN GSCHWEND (CHAM, Universidade Nova de Lisboa): Pietas Austriaca at the Lisbon court. The monumental chapel and funerary tombs of Catherine of Austria in the San Jerónimos monastic complex in Belém
Juan Luis GONZÁLEZ GARCÍA (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): Preachers, portraitists and nude collectors in the court of Madrid (c. 1590-1630)

16.15 - 17.15 REVIEW AND PREVIEW

Bruno MEIER (Baden, Aargau): Bescheidene Burgen und kleine Städte. Die Präsenz der Dynastie in den vorderösterreichischen Stammlanden im Spätmittelalter (12. bis 15. Jh.)
Eva MICHEL (Albertina, Vienna): Preview to the exhibition “Emperor Maximilian I (1459–1519) and the art of his time” (Albertina, September 2012 – January 2013)
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Palatium : Court Residences as places of exchange in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe 1400 - 1700