Title & Author:

Court festivals of the European Renaissance : art, politics, and performance / edited by J.R. Mulryne and Elizabeth Goldring.

Publication:

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2002.

Description:

xxii, 401 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Recovering the past. Early modern European festivals -- politics and performance, event and record / Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly -- The renaissance triumph and its classical heritage / Margaret M. McGowan -- pt. 2. Early modern France and festival. Court festival and triumphal entries under Henri II / Richard Cooper -- Etiquette and architecture at the court of the last Valois / Monique Chatenet -- The politics of festivals at the court of the last Valois / Nicolas Le Roux -- The financing and material organization of court festivals under Louis XIV / Chantal Grell -- pt. 3. Festivals for Charles V. The two coronations of Charles V at Bologna, 1530 / Bernhard Schimmelpfennig -- Charles V's journey through France, 1539-40 / R.J. Knecht -- 'Greater than Zeuxis and Apelles' : artists as arguments in the Antwerp entry of 1549 / Jochen Becker -- pt. 4. Ceremony and Elizabethan England. The funeral of Sir Philip Sidney and the politics of Elizabethan festival / Elizabeth Goldring -- 'And the king of Barbary's envoy had to stand in the yard' : the perception of Elizabethan court festivals in Russia at the beginning of the seventeenth century / Victoria Musvik -- pt. 5. The performance of festival : music, theatre, and event. Rites of passage : Cosimo I de'Medici and the theatre of death / Iain Fenlon -- The role of music in Italian court festivals in the early renaissance / Nicoletta Guidobaldi -- Musical festivals at a capital without a court : Spanish Naples from Charles V (1535) to Philip V (1702) / Dinko Fabris -- Music in Ferrarese festivals : harmony and chaos / Flora Dennis -- Checklists for Philostrate / Roger Savage -- pt. 6. Festival and architecture. The Theatrum for the entry of Claudia de'Medici and Federigo Ubaldo della Rovere into Urbino, 1621 / Peter Davidson -- The first temporary triumphal arch in Venice (1557) / Maximilian L.S. Tondro -- Ephemeral ceremonial architecture in Prague, Vienna and Cracow in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries / Marina Dmitrieva-Einhorn.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Festivals were occasions to which Renaissance European courts devoted lavish resources. They marked all manner of state events and were charged with political, economic and cultural significance. The essays in this volume, by an international group of contributors, explore all of these aspects of court festivals and address occasions and topics particular to countries from England to Russia, Italy, France and Germany. They illustrate that festivals resulted both in the creation of high art, as in the work of Rubens, but most often in more emphemeral workmanship. Performances could be magnificent, though they were also fallible and occasionally disastrous. This collection demonstrates that these festivals provide fascinating material for all students of the political and artistic culture of the European Renaissance.

ISBN:

0754606287 (acid-free paper)
9780754606284 (acid-free paper)

Subject:

Festivals Europe History.
Pageants Europe History.
Renaissance.
Spectacles historiques Europe Histoire.
Courts and courtiers
Festivals
Pageants
Höfisches Fest
Hoffeesten.
Kunst.
Europa Cort i cortesans S. XVI-XVII.
Festivals Europa Història.
Festivals Europe History 16th century.
Festivals Europe History 17th century.
Pageants Europe History 16th century.
Pageants Europe History 17th century.
Europe Court and courtiers History.
Europe Court and courtiers.
Europe Cours et courtisans Histoire.
Europe
Europa
Europe, Western Court and courtiers History.
Castelvecchio Pascoli <2000>
Festivals Europe 1500-1700.
Courts (social groups) Europe 1500-1700.
Renaissance festivals Europe 1500-1700.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Mulryne, J. R.
Goldring, Elizabeth, 1970-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 226042
Call No.: GT4842.A2 C68 2002
Status: Available