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

Seminars in de Academia Belgica Piazza di Spagna – de Spaanse ambassade

Struinen in de prentencollectie van het Museo di Roma

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. !

Aankondiging eind presentatie

Prezi presentation made by students

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.

Giulio Camillo’s teatro della memoria