Symposium Nederlands erfgoed in Europees perspectief, 31 januari 2013 Amersfoort

1. 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

2. 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

3. Federaal Belgisch onderzoeksproject
‘Cultures of Baroque Spectacle Between Italy and the
Southern Netherlands’
Gefinancierd door Belspo (Belgian Science Policy Office).
Board of the research project:
Ralph Dekoninck (Universiteit Louvain-la-Neuve);
Maarten Delbeke (Universiteit Gent)
Annick Delfosse (Universiteit Liege)
Koen Vermeir (Kath. Universiteit Leuven)

4. Academia Belgica, Rome
Onderzoeksinstituut,
bibliotheek, onderdak voor individuele
onderzoekers en voor groepen

5. 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

6. Summerschool Roma in Festa
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

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

8. Struinen in de prentencollectie van het Museo di Roma

9. Biblioteca Vallicelliana
http://www.casanatense.it/
index.php/en/risorse-
online.html
Biblioteca Casanatense

10. Entry of 1655
Posters for the Final Christina of Sweden
in Palazzo Farnese
Presentation:
Nele De Raedt, independent researcher
Master of Engineering: Architecture and Urban design, University of Ghent, 2011
1!
! 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.
From Piazza San Pietro towards Palazzo Farnese:
estimated route _detail Falda map
Arrival on Piazza Farnese
You can see this temporary façade on the
(incomplete) drawing by Carlo Rainaldi. It
contains various biblical figures and
13"
devices referring to Christina‘s strength to
stand up against Protestantism, her royal 11" 12"
6" 7" 8" 9" 10"
status and the glory and honour that she
deserves. The arms of the pope and the
Roma Trionfante on top celebrate Rome’s
1" 2" 3" 4" 5"
supremacy. The only references to the
"
Farnese family are the inscription above 4!
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 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
and Piacenza, paid for the event, probably
Printing the posters for the exhibition in the hope to obtain a new deadline from
the pope to repurchase their lost Duchy of
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
Castro. Pope 9. Arms of Christina 10. Medallion with Judge Debora 11. Judith 12. Yael 13. Roma Trionfante
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
!

11. 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.
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.
!
!
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.
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. !

12. Aankondiging eind
presentatie

13. Prezi presentation made by students

14. Printed festival books
Digitalization projects from the 1990s onwards
http://www.bl.uk/
treasures/festivalbooks/
homepage.html
Menu des Plaisirs du Roi:
Office responsible for festivities at
the royal court in Paris
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/
documentation/archim/MP/MP-
accueil.htm

15. Filippo Lauri and Filippo Gagliardi, Giostra dei Caroselli. Oil on canvas, 233mm X
340mm. Museo di Roma, Piazza Navona, Rome, MR 5698.

16. Giulio Camillo’s teatro della memoria