roma in festa
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ROMA IN FESTA – INTERNATIONALE STUDENTEN MAKEN EEN EUROPEANA-TENTOONSTELLING
CARARE studiedag, RCE Amersfoort / 31 jan 2013 Minou Schraven / Amsterdam University College
Oscar Seip, MA / Universiteit van Amsterdam
Opzet • Summer school ‘Roma in Festa’ (9-15 juli 2012)
• inkadering binnen het Belgische onderzoeksproject • Het thema van de summer school; (digitale) bronnen • Programma en externe partners
• Output van de Summer school • Tentoonstelling in de Academia Belgica in Rome en onze Prezi!
• Van de Prezi naar de Europeana-tentoonstelling • (de komende drie maanden) • Uitgangspunt is de kaart van Rome van Giambattista Nolli (1748)_ • Toevoegen: colofon met de ervaringen van de studenten
Board of the research project: Ralph Dekoninck (Universiteit Louvain-la-Neuve); Maarten Delbeke (Universiteit Gent) Annick Delfosse (Universiteit Liege) Koen Vermeir (Kath. Universiteit Leuven)
Federaal Belgisch onderzoeksproject ‘Cultures of Baroque Spectacle Between Italy and the Southern Netherlands’ Gefinancierd door Belspo (Belgian Science Policy Office).
Academia Belgica, Rome Onderzoeksinstituut, bibliotheek, onderdak voor individuele onderzoekers en voor groepen
Introductiedag 23 april in Brussel - Kennismaking; - Verdelen van de onderwerpen; - Collecties Koninklijke Musea Schone Kunsten en Koninklijke Bibliotheek
(Prentenkabinet en Penningenkabinet). Summer school: 9 -14 Juli in Rome • Seminars op de Academia Belgica • Korte presentaties van de studenten • Stadswandelingen • Bezoeken aan collecties van musea, bibliotheken en archieven.
• Museo di Roma • Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica • Biblioteca Casanatense • Bibioteca Vallicelliana • Archivio Padri Oratoriani (Chiesa Nuova)
• EIndpresentatie
http://calcografica.ing.beniculturali.it/calcografica/index.php?page=_layout_home&id=1&lang=it
Op bezoek bij Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica / Calcografia nazionale
Summerschool Roma in Festa
Biblioteca Vallicelliana
http://www.casanatense.it/index.php/en/risorse-online.html
Biblioteca Casanatense
Posters for the Final Presentation:
Printing the posters for the exhibition
Entry of 1655 Christina of Sweden in Palazzo Farnese Nele De Raedt, independent researcher Master of Engineering: Architecture and Urban design, University of Ghent, 2011
The route
On the 23th of December the converted Queen Christina of Sweden was
officially welcomed by the pope in Rome. Three days afterwards an impressive
procession accompanied her from the Vatican Palace towards Palazzo
Farnese, where she would take her more permanent residence. People
gathered in the streets and an infinit number of lights illuminated the route.
Upon arrival on Piazza Farnese, four bonfires around the fountains lit up the
scene and torches attached to the palazzo illuminated the temporary façade
that had been built in honour of the guest.
Arrival on Piazza Farnese
You can see this temporary façade on the
(incomplete) drawing by Carlo Rainaldi. It
contains various biblical figures and
devices referring to Christina‘s strength to
stand up against Protestantism, her royal
status and the glory and honour that she
deserves. The arms of the pope and the
Roma Trionfante on top celebrate Rome’s
supremacy. The only references to the
Farnese family are the inscription above
the central doorway and lilies in shields and
friezes. Palazzo Farnese, no longer
inhabited by the family, was at that time still
one of the most impressive palaces in
Rome. Ranuccio Farnese, Duke of Parma
and Piacenza, paid for the event, probably
in the hope to obtain a new deadline from
the pope to repurchase their lost Duchy of
Castro.
Main primary source: • Vera e compita relatione del ricevimento fatto alla ... regina di Suetia in Roma dalla Santità di N.S. Papa Alessandro Settimo ... . Rome,
Cavalli F. 1656; in 4º, 12 p !
Author’s reconstruction of the apparato for the reception of Christina of Sweden in Palazzo Farnese superimposing the drawing from Carlo Rainaldi on the present-day façade Façade’s program: 1. Elia 2. Christina presenting her crown and sceptre in the Santa Casa di Loreto 3. “Christinae suevorum regina ob depositum pro religione regni fastigium regit fortuna maiori gloria monumentum hox erigit Ranutius Farnesius Parme & Piacenta Dux” 4. Christina presenting at the pope in Consistory 5. Samson 6. Medallion with queen Esther 7. Arms of Sweden 8. Arms of the Pope 9. Arms of Christina 10. Medallion with Judge Debora 11. Judith 12. Yael 13. Roma Trionfante
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From Piazza San Pietro towards Palazzo Farnese: estimated route _detail Falda map
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Celebrations for the 1637 Election of Ferdinand III as King of the Romans Sarah Lampe, Leiden University
Fireworks on Piazza di Spagna
This etching shows a moment of the magnificent fireworks held on Piazza di Spagna in
Rome in February 1637. The Spanish ambassador to the Vatican in Rome, Manual de
Moura, organized an eight-day long festival to celebrate the election of Ferdinand III as
King of the Romans. The highlight of the festival were the great fireworks. What you see
on the left is a square-shaped tower bursting into fireworks and revealing a round-
shaped tower. Subsequently, this tower likewise burst into flames revealing an
equestrian statue of Ferdinand III. With the help of some ‘occulte machine’ (secret
machinery) the statue was then brought from the square into the palace of the
ambassador.
Festival Book
In the early modern period, festival books were frequently published to record events like
elections, weddings, and births. To the right, you see the first page of the festival book about
the events on Piazza di Spagna. On several pages, the author describes the course of the
events and does the honor to the newly elected king Ferdinand and also to Spain. Books like
this one were a good means to promote the influence and authority of the host of such
celebrations.
The election of Ferdinand was also celebrated at other sites in Rome. It was an appreciated
occasion for persons of the political life in the city, such as the Spanish ambassador, to
demonstrate status and power in the fragile net of political relationships in the town at the
time.
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The image is part of a series of etchings illustrating the fireworks on Piazza di Spagna published in a Festival Book shortly
after the event. You can see the series below. Read from left to right, the sequence of events appears almost like a film. !
Primary Source: Festival Book, Descripcion de las fiestas que el S[eño]r Marques de Castel Rodrigo Embaxador de España celebró en esta corte ala nueva del election de Ferdinando III de Austria Rey de Romanos, C.33.l.2, London, British Library. !
Printed festival books Digitalization projects from the 1990s onwards
http://www.bl.uk/treasures/festivalbooks/homepage.html
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/archim/MP/MP-accueil.htm
Menu des Plaisirs du Roi: Office responsible for festivities at the royal court in Paris
Filippo Lauri and Filippo Gagliardi, Giostra dei Caroselli. Oil on canvas, 233mm X 340mm. Museo di Roma, Piazza Navona, Rome, MR 5698.