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

Awarded Grants

For participation in the workshop Virtual Palaces, Part II (Munich, April 2012), grants have been awarded to:

• Marco Antonio Ricci (University of Vienna): "Al-Khawarnaq: Topos and Reconstruction of a Lost Early Islamic Palace”
• Ana Catarina Gonçalves Lopes (EAUM Escola de Arquitectura da Universidade do Minho / CHAM Centro de História de Além-Mar, Portugal): “Virtually rebuilding the Palace of Vila Viçosa: from nowadays until the time of D. Teodósio I (the first half of 16th century)”

For participation in the colloquium Beyond Scylla and Charybdis (Copenhagen, April-May 2012), grants have been awarded to:

• Jennifer Halton (National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland): “Standing on Scylla and Charybdis: iconography and symbolism in the visual and aural embellishment of the palazzo Medici”
• Sabine Jagodzinski (Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas (GWZO) an der Universität Leipzig, Germany): “The commemoration of the anti-Ottoman wars as reflected in the art and architecture of noble residences in 17th-century Poland-Lithuania”

For participation in the workshop Inventories and Courtly Spaces (Sintra, January 2012), grants have been awarded to:

• Nicolas Courtin (Département histoire de l’architecture et archéologie, Ville de Paris, France): “Inventories and 17th-century Parisian mansions”

For participation in the conference The Habsburgs and their Courts in Europe (Vienna, December 2011), grants have been awarded to:

• Laura Fernandez Gonzalez (University of Edinburgh, UK): “Historia Pro Patria: the Hall of Battles in El Escorial Monastery and the Fame of the Universal Monarch”
• Sara Fuentes Lazaro (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain): “Stairways to Heaven: Dynastic Symbolism and Illusionistic Painting in the Spanish Habsburgs’ Palace-Monasteries (1666-1692)”
• Milton Pedro Dias Pacheco (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal): “Palaces on the Edge of the Atlantic: the Architectural Reformation and the Space Ritualization of the Portuguese Royal Residences during the Reign of Phillip I of Habsburg (1580-1598)”
• Andreas Puth (Universität Leipzig, Germany): “Habsburg Rule and Austrian Past Visualized: the Wappenwand at Wiener Neustadt and Frederick III’s Repraesentatio Majestatis”
• Madelon Simons (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands): “Archduke Ferdinand II and his ‘Theatrum’ of Representation in Prague (1547-1567)”
• Katharina Van Cauteren (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium): “ ‘Victor Orbis’: the Emperor, the Sultan and the Artistic Battles of the Last World Emperor”

For participation in the workshop Virtual Palaces, Part I (Leuven, November 2011), grants have been awarded to:

• Martina Ballarin (Università IUAV di Venezia, Italy): “Digital technologies for knowledge: the 3D model of the Tribuna of Palazzo Grimani in Venice”
• Inga Genyte (Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania): “Recovery aspects of the Castle Palace in the Baltic Sea Region”
• Miklós Rácz (Hungarian National Museum, Budapest, Hungary): “Digital modeling of the existing building remains as a basis of analysis and reconstruction in the case of the castle Csesznek, an early 15th-century country residence in Hungary”

For participation in the colloquium Princes, Princesses and their Lodgings (Paris, June 2011), grants have been awarded to:

• Elena Bakaldina (Saint Petersburg State University, Russia): “The Merger of Edward IV’s and Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s Households”
• Klazina Dieuwke Botke (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands): “The Salviati family and their art patronage under the reign of the Medici grand dukes”
• Francesco Pasquale (Università IUAV di Venezia, Italy): “Between royal palace and convent: Robert of Anjou and Sancha of Majorca at Castel Nuovo”

For participation in the colloquium Felix Austria (Madrid, December 2010), grants have been awarded to:

• Leen Kelchtermans (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium): “Battle iconography in courtly residences: some considerations on the ‘problematic’ case of Peter Snayers (1592-1667)”
• Luis Tercero Casado (Universität Wien, Austria): “ 'Un atto tanto pregiuditiale alla mia persona per l’ordini che ho': conflicts of protocol precedence between Madrid and Vienna (1648-1659)”