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Item Number: 135473
Title: Festival Culture in the World of the Spanish Habsburgs
Author: Checa Cremades, Fernando (et al)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781409435617
Description: Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. 25cm., hardcover, 299pp., 54 b&w illus.

Contents: Foreword, Teófilo F. Ruiz; Introduction, Laura Fernández-González and Fernando Checa Cremades. Part I Habsburg Visual Culture: Tapestries, Paintings and Festivals at Court: The language of triumph: images of war and victory in two tapestry series, Fernando Checa Cremades; The ceremonial decoration of the Alcázar in Madrid: the use of tapestries and paintings in Habsburg festivities, Miguel Ángel Zalama Rodríguez. Part II Entries, Sojourns and the Wider Triumphal Culture in the Habsburg World: Interventions in the urban space of Habsburg Madrid, David Sánchez Cano; Negotiating terms: King Philip I of Portugal and the ceremonial entry of 1581 into Lisbon, Laura Fernández-González; The loose parts of an entry: the flop of Cremona in 1598, Maria Ines Aliverti; Margaret of Austria’s travel in the state of Milan between 1598 and 1599, Franca Varallo; Triumphal culture in Spanish America, Victor Mínguez. Part III Religion and Empire: Processions, Funerals and the Spanish Monarchy: The royal exequies in new world cities and the creation of an imperial urban geography, Alejandra B. Osorio; Festivals and hagiography in the Spanish court (1565-1615). The veræ effigies of Counter-Reformation saints, from models to miracles, Juan Luis González García; Corpus Christi in Spanish Palermo: Baroque apparati by Paolo and Giacomo Amato during the government of the Duke of Uceda (1687-1696), Sabina de Cavi. Part IV Music and Art in the Service of the Spanish Habsburgs: Music in the service of the Spanish hegemony in early modern Rome, Noel O’Regan; Royal festivals in mid-17th-century Naples: the image of the Spanish Habsburg kings in the works of art of Italian and Spanish artists, Ida Mauro.

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