This event was originally scheduled to take place in April 2020 at the Rubenianum in Antwerp, but had to be postponed. Due to the dynamic situation of the Covid-19-pandemic, the two-day conference took place in a digital format instead, on 10 and 11 December 2020.
This online event brought together the leading scholars of this field of art and ritual history whose contributions have made it possible to gain a deeper understanding of the early modern festivities held in the Netherlands to assert and negotiate power between the ruler and the ruled. The challenges and opportunities of studying such significant moments in history were discussed together with (young) colleagues and specialists from adjacent disciplines.
Programme
Thursday, 10 December, 2020 - Zoom
Time zone: CET/UTC+1 (Brussels)
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15.30 | Welcome by Véronique Van de Kerckhof (Rubenianum) and the organizers Sabrina Lind (Ghent University (FWO)/University of Verona/Rubenianum) and Ivo Raband (University of Hamburg)
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15.40 | Short Introduction of the Session by Ivo Raband (University of Hamburg)
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15.50 | Margaret McGowan (University of Sussex), The Quest for Peace in Princely Entries
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16.30 | Tamar Cholcman (Tel Aviv University), Emblematic Crosswords: The Spectator as Player in Joyous Entries
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17.30 | Alexander R. Dencher (Leiden University/Rijksmuseum), Joyous Entry or Roman Triumph? Art and Ambiguity in the Entry of Willem III of Orange, King of England, into The Hague in 1691
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18.10 | Joaneath Spicer (The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore), The Float Celebrating Archduchess Isabella’s Support for the Arts in the Brussels Procession of 31 May 1615
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18.50 | End of Day 1 and Good-Bye from the Organizers
Friday, 11 December, 2020 - Zoom
15.30 | Short Introduction of the Session by Sabrina Lind (Ghent University (FWO)/University of Verona/Rubenianum)
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15.40 | Stijn Bussels (Leiden University), Markers of Liminality: Tableaux Vivants in the Joyous Entries of the Low Countries
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16.20 | Margit Thøfner (University of East Anglia), Thinking Through Music: Joyous Entry Soundscapes
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17.20 | Anne-Laure Van Bruaene (Ghent University), Tradition and Rebellion: Entry Ceremonies in Calvinist Ghent (1577–1584)
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18.00 | Antien Knaap (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), Multimediality and Emblematics in Rubens’s Pompa Decorations and Frans Francken’s Allegory of the Abdication of Charles V
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18.40 | End of Day 2 and Good-Bye from the Organizers