Dekoninck, Ralph
[UCL]
From a corpus of Jesuit festivities in seventeenth-century Southern Netherlands,
we will analyze the very few visual documents preserved that give an image of the
moments and monuments of celebration. We will in particular investigate the status
and functions of this spectacular iconography in comparison with the events and
architectural devices described in the written sources. The type of messages and
effects produced by those images will be studied not exactly as direct representations of the festivities but as symbolical recreations of the ephemeral events and ornaments. This iconography will not only be understood through its diverse references to a visual culture profoundly anchored in the Southern Netherlands from the sixteenth century onwards, but also through the inspiration found in the Italian festive models that circulated broadly at this time.
Bibliographic reference |
Dekoninck, Ralph. Framing the Feast: The meanings of festive ornaments in the Jesuit spectacle culture of the Low Countries.Annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (San Diego, du 04/04/2013 au 06/04/2013). |
Permanent URL |
http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/128920 |