Festival culture in the world of the Spanish Habsburgs
By: edited by Fernando Checa Cremades and Laura Fernández-González
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781409435617; 9781409435624; 9781472401441
Subjects: Politics and government; Christianity and politics; Visual communication; Rites and ceremonies; Imperialism; Relations; Festivals; Triumph; History
Description: "Festivals and ceremonials played a major role in the Spanish world; through them local identities as well as a common Spanish culture made their presence manifest within and beyond the peninsula through ephemeral displays, music and print. This book explores Habsburg visual culture at court and its connection with the creation of a language of triumph, the relationship between religion and the empire, and examines cultural, artistic and musical exchange in Naples and Rome. Taken together these essays contribute further to our growing appreciation of the importance of early-modern festival cultures in general, and their significance in the world of the Spanish Habsburgs in particular"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Teófilo F. Ruiz; title: Introduction / Laura Fernández-González and Fernando Checa Cremades; title: I. Habsburg visual culture : tapestries, paintings and festivals at court; title: The language of triumph : images of war and victory in two tapestry series / Fernando Checa Cremades, University Complutense of Madrid; title: The ceremonial decoration of the Alcázar in Madrid : the use of tapestries and paintings in Habsburg festivities / Miguel Ángel Zalama Rodríguez, University of Valladolid; title: II. Entries, sojourns & the wider triumphal culture in the Habsburg world; title: Interventions in the urban space of Habsburg Madrid / David Sánchez Cano, University Alfonso X; title: Negotiating terms : King Philip I of Portugal and the ceremonial entry of 1581 into Lisbon / Laura Fernández-González, University of Edinburgh; title: The loose parts of an entry : the flop of Cremona in 1598 / Maria Ines Aliverti, University of Pisa; title: Margaret of Austria's travel in the state of Milan between 1598 and 1599 / Franca Varallo, University of Torino; title: Triumphal culture in Spanish America / Victor Mínguez, University of Castellón, Spain; title: III. Religion and empire : processions, funerals and the Spanish monarchy; title: The royal exequies in New World cities and the creation of an imperial urban geography / Alejandra B. Osorio, Wellesley College; title: Festivals and hagiography in the Spanish court (1565-1615) : the Veræ effigies of Counter-Reformation saints, from models to miracles / Juan Luis González García, University Autónoma of Madrid; title: Corpus Christi in Spanish Palermo : Baroque apparati by Paolo and Giacomo Amato during the government of the Duke of Uceda (1687-1696) / Sabina di Cabi, University of Córdoba; title: IV. Music and art in the service of the Spanish Habsburgs; title: Music in the service of the Spanish hegemony in early modern Rome / Noel O'Regan, University of Edinburgh; title: Royal festivals in mid-seventeenth-century Naples : the image of the Spanish Habsburg kings in the works of art of Italian and Spanish artists / Ida Mauro, University of Barcelona.