CONF: Arts and Court Cultures in the Iberian World (Cambridge, 28 April 2017)

Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University, April 28, 2017
International workshop on Arts and Court Cultures in the Iberian World (1400-1650)
Friday, April 28, 2017, 9:00am to 5:00pm
http://rcc.harvard.edu/event/arts-and-court-cultures-iberian-world-1400-1650
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.
09.00
Registration
09.15
Welcome & opening remarks
09.30
Viceregal Palaces in the Dominions of the Crown of Aragon: Charting a Mediterranean Architecture
Prof. Mercedes Gómez-Ferrer (Universitat de València)
10.45
Icons of Dynastic Authority. Sofonisba Anguissola at Her Majesty’s Service
Prof. Jorge Sebastián (Universitat de València)
12.00
Lunch
13.30
Facing the Infidel Other: Visual Battle Narratives and Royal Entries by Spanish Habsburg Monarchs
Dr. Borja Franco (UNED, Madrid)
14.45
The Triumph of Tunis in Viceregal Palermo, Messina, and Naples
Prof. Cristelle Baskins (Tufts University)
16.00
Final remarks and roundtable discussion with Prof. Felipe Pereda (Harvard University).
17.00
End of workshop
Each lecture to be followed by Q & A
Location:  RCC Conference Room, 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge MA

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