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This volume explores the concept of magnificence as a social construction in seventeenth-century Europe. Although this period is often described as the ‘Age of Magnificence’, thus far no attempts have been made to investigate how the term and the concept of magnificence functioned. The authors focus on the way crucial ethical, religious, political, aesthetic, and cultural developments interacted with thought on magnificence in Catholic and Protestant contexts, analysing spectacular civic and courtly festivities and theatre, impressive displays of painting and sculpture in rich architectural settings, splendid gardens, exclusive etiquette, grand households, and learned treatises of moral philosophy.
Contributors: Lindsay Alberts, Stijn Bussels, Jorge Fernández-Santos, Anne-Madeleine Goulet, Elizabeth den Hartog, Michèle-Caroline Heck, Miguel Hermoso Cuesta, José Eloy Hortal Muñoz, Félix Labrador Arroyo, Victoire Malenfer, Alessandro Metlica, Alessandra Mignatti, Anne-Françoise Morel, Matthias Roick, Kathrin Stocker, Klaas Tindemans, and Gijs Versteegen.
Contributors: Lindsay Alberts, Stijn Bussels, Jorge Fernández-Santos, Anne-Madeleine Goulet, Elizabeth den Hartog, Michèle-Caroline Heck, Miguel Hermoso Cuesta, José Eloy Hortal Muñoz, Félix Labrador Arroyo, Victoire Malenfer, Alessandro Metlica, Alessandra Mignatti, Anne-Françoise Morel, Matthias Roick, Kathrin Stocker, Klaas Tindemans, and Gijs Versteegen.
This volume explores the concept of magnificence as a social construction in seventeenth-century Europe. Although this period is often described as the ‘Age of Magnificence’, thus far no attempts have been made to investigate how the term and the concept of magnificence functioned. The authors fo...
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Gijs Versteegen, Ph.D., is lecturer in early modern history at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Madrid). He researched court philosophy and the reception of court culture in enlightened and liberal historiography, publishing the monograph Corte y Estado en la historiografía liberal: un cambio de paradigma (Madrid: 2015).
Stijn Bussels. Ph.D. (2005, Ghent University) is Professor of Art History at the Leiden University. He has published widely on the intersections between the visual arts, theatre and spectacle in the early modern Low Countries. He is the author of The Antwerp Entry of Prince Philip in 1549. Rhetoric, Performance and Power (Rodopi 2012).
Walter S. Melion is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University. He has published widely on early modern image cultures, on the art and art theory of the Low Countries, on scriptural image-making, on emblems and emblematics, and on Jesuit image theory.
Stijn Bussels. Ph.D. (2005, Ghent University) is Professor of Art History at the Leiden University. He has published widely on the intersections between the visual arts, theatre and spectacle in the early modern Low Countries. He is the author of The Antwerp Entry of Prince Philip in 1549. Rhetoric, Performance and Power (Rodopi 2012).
Walter S. Melion is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University. He has published widely on early modern image cultures, on the art and art theory of the Low Countries, on scriptural image-making, on emblems and emblematics, and on Jesuit image theory.
Gijs Versteegen, Ph.D., is lecturer in early modern history at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Madrid). He researched court philosophy and the reception of court culture in enlightened and liberal historiography, publishing the monograph Corte y Estado en la historiografía liberal: un cambio de ...
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