Palatium : Court Residences as places of exchange in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe 1400 - 1700

Sintra workshop “Inventories”

Workshops and Colloquia 12/01/2012 → 14/01/2012

Inventories and Courtly Spaces (1400-1700)

Attending the conference is free, but for practical reasons registration is required. Please register by submitting this Registration form.
 

PROGRAMME

Thursday, 12 January
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon

18.00  OPENING LECTURE

  • David STARKEY (London School of Economics, UK): Inventories: Material culture or personal possessions? Some lessons of the Henry VIII inventory project 

Friday, 13 January
Palácio Nacional de Sintra

10.30  Registration and Welcome

11.30  SESSION I - PROBLEMS AND QUESTIONS

  • Krista DE JONGE (University of Leuven, Belgium): The residence of Charles II of Croÿ, duke of Aerschot and grandee of Spain, in the inventories (c. 1600). Approach, interpretation, implications
    [DE JONGE - material for discussion]
  • Bernardo J. GARCÍA GARCÍA (Universidad Complutense de Madrid & Fundación Carlos de Amberes, Spain): Crossing borders. Inventories and passports for the study of court residences at the Hispanic Monarchy (1575-1700)
  • Maurice HOWARD (University of Essex & Society of Antiquaries of London, UK): A royal apartment and its uses
    [HOWARD - material for discussion]

13.00  Lunch break

14.30  SESSION I  (continued)

  • Jessica HALLET and Nuno SENOS (CHAM Universidade Nova de Lisboa & Universidade dos Açores, Portugal): The inventory of the Duke of Bragança and the Palace at Vila Viçosa, c.1563
    [HALLET SENOS - material for discussion]
  • Annemarie JORDAN GSCHWEND (CHAM Universidade Nova de Lisboa & Universidade dos Açores, Portugal): Catherine and Juana of Austria: Defining feminine royal spaces and contexts of display in Portugal and Spain
    [JORDAN GSCHWEND - material for discussion]
  • Dagmar EICHBERGER (Universität Heidelberg & Universität Trier, Germany): The challenge of reconstructing the living quarters of Archduchess Margaret of Austria, regent of the Netherlands (1480-1530), in her former residence in Mechelen
    [EICHBERGER - material for discussion]

16.00  Coffee break

16.30  SESSION I  (continued)

  • Markus JEITLER (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Austria): The inventories of Schloss Trautmannsdorf an der Leitha (Lower Austria) between 1564 and 1697 - changes and comparisons
    [JEITLER - material for discussion]
  • Pieter MARTENS (University of Leuven, Belgium): The inventory of the Chateau of Peter Ernst, Count of Mansfeld, at Clausen near Luxemburg (1604)
    [MARTENS - material for discussion]
  • Jiri KUBES (Univerzita Pardubice, Czech Republic): On inventories of main halls and dining rooms in the residences of Bohemian and Moravian higher nobility (1600-1750)
    [KUBES - material for discussion]

Saturday, 14 January
Palácio Nacional de Sintra

10.00  SESSION I  (continued) 

  • Konrad OTTENHEYM (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands): Mapping the inventory: The role of curtains and windows for the identification of spaces
    [OTTENHEYM - material for discussion]
  • Birgitte BØGGILD JOHANNSEN (National Museum of Denmark, Denmark): Between mobilia and imobilia? Tracking tapestries and their ceremonial reuse in Danish court inventories during the 16th and 17th centuries
    [BØGGILD JOHANNSEN - material for discussion]
  • Giuseppe BERTINI (Deputazione di Storia Patria per le Province Parmensi, Italy): Baldachins in Farnese inventories and their use in court life
    [BERTINI - material for discussion]

11.30  Coffee break

12.00  SESSION II - CASE STUDIES

  • Alice PARRI and Laura BENASSI (Scuola Normal Superiore Pisa, Italy): The Medici’s villa ‘Ambrogiana’: A building rediscovered through its inventories
  • Alexandre PAIS (Museu Nacional do Azulejo & CHAM, Universidade Nova de Lisboa & Universidade dos Açores, Portugal): Puzzles: 16th-century tiles for the Palace of D. Teodósio de Bragança 
  • Joana TORRES (CHAM, Universidade Nova de Lisboa & Universidade dos Açores, Portugal): Finding a kitchen in a palace: Vila Viçosa, c. 1563

13.00  Lunch break

14.30  SESSION II  (continued)

  • Tülay ARTAN (Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey): Reconstruction of the Defterdarburnu Palace on the Bosphorus, Istanbul: Building inventories, architecture and space
  • Nicolas COURTIN (Ville de Paris, Département Histoire de l’Architecture et Archéologie, France): Inventories and 17th-century parisian mansions
    [COURTIN - Inventories available online at website Centre André Chastel]
  • Teresa VALE (Instituto de História da Arte, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal): The Portuguese embassy’s palaces in Rome: an approach to the inventories of 1740 and 1750
  • Trudie Rosa DE CARVALHO-ROOS (Paleis Het Loo Nationaal Museum, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands): A reconstruction of the courtly interiors and life of the Dutch court at Het Binnenhof in The Hague, based on an inventory of 1796

16.00  Coffee break

16.30  CLOSING LECTURE

  • Fernando CHECA (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain): Artistic inventories and descriptions of palaces: The case of Felipe II in the Monasterio de El Escorial 
Sintra workshop “Inventories”