13-14 janvier 2012, Lisbonne et Sintra : Inventories and Courtly Spaces
Location : Lisbon (Fundação Gulbenkian) & Sintra (Palácio Nacional), Portugal
Convenors : Nuno Senos and Jessica Hallett
ROGRAMME
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
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
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
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
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
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
Pieter MARTENS (University of Leuven, Belgium) : The inventory of the Chateau of Peter Ernst, Count of Mansfeld, at Clausen near Luxemburg (1604)
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)
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
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
Giuseppe BERTINI (Deputazione di Storia Patria per le Province Parmensi, Italy) : Baldachins in Farnese inventories and their use in court life
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
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