UV organizes a workshop about court arts from medieval and early modern times
As a result of the agreement between Universitat de València and Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University, a symposium titled “Arts and Court Cultures in the Iberian World (1400-1650)” will take place on Friday, April 28th. Professor Jorge Sebastián Lozano, from UV’s Departament d’Història de l’Art, has coordinated the event.
Visual strategies of legitimization became increasingly important for Iberian monarchies during the late medieval and early modern periods. Mediterranean dynastic, diplomatic, and military endeavors called for effective propaganda, both in the metropolis and in viceregal territories, such as southern Italy. Such efforts include architecture, both ephemeral and permanent, the decoration of palaces, court portraiture, and historiography. The advent of a Monarchia Hispanica under Habsburg rule required careful elaborations of national, religious, racial, and gender identities, across a mosaic of multilingual and multiethnic populations.
This workshop aims to highlight some of these strategies, and to create a forum for discussion of further research avenues, under the guidance of scholars from Spanish and American universities. It is made possible thanks to the collaboration of the Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University, and the University of Valencia, with additional support from the Fulbright Commission and the BBVA Foundation.
The program includes the following sessions:
- Viceregal Palaces in the Dominions of the Crown of Aragon: Charting a Mediterranean Architecture. Prof. Mercedes Gómez-Ferrer (Universitat de València).
- Icons of Dynastic Authority. Sofonisba Anguissola at Her Majesty’s Service. Prof. Jorge Sebastián (Universitat de València).
- Facing the Infidel Other: Visual Battle Narratives and Royal Entries by Spanish Habsburg Monarchs. Dr. Borja Franco (UNED, Madrid).
- The Case of the Missing Moors: Triumphal Entries in Viceregal Palermo, Messina, and Naples. Prof. Cristelle Baskins (Tufts University).
- Comentarios finales y discusión de resultados con el Prof. Felipe Pereda (Harvard University).
Further information, click here:
http://rcc.harvard.edu/event/arts-and-court-cultures-iberian-world-1400-1650
