International Symposium
PALATIUM. Court Residences as Places of Exchange in Late Medieval and
Modern Europe, 1400-1700

Over the past five years PALATIUM has studied European court residences
in the period 1400-1700. The world of courts constituted a network of
truly European scale and international character, and various aspects of
its architecture have been studied in their connectivity during several
conferences and workshops. This final symposium aims at bringing
together the results of these past meetings and will draw some
conclusions about the project's central themes.

The symposium will compare the solutions created in different European
court circles concerning three main areas of courtly life and symbolism:
the layout of the rooms, the role of sacred spaces, and the visual
iconography of the buildings. The aim is to see which common patterns in
architectural design existed within the international court network of
the early modern period, and to what extent we can identify more
regional or local solutions in residential architecture.


PROGRAM

Wednesday 4 March

8.30
Opening | Registration

9.00
Introduction
Stephan HOPPE (Ludwig‐Maximilians‐Universität Munich)
Krista DE JONGE (University of Leuven, PALATIUM Chair)

Session I. The Spatial Organisation and Ceremonial Use of the Apartment
System: Different Models
Session chair: Dagmar EICHBERGER (University of Heidelberg/University of
Trier)

9.45
Krista DE JONGE (University of Leuven)
Living in the Burgundian Manner from the Low Countries to Spain
(1480–1630). On a 'Model', its Transmutations, and its Assimilation by
the High Nobility of the Habsburg Court during the Long Sixteenth
Century

10.30 Coffee Break

11.00
Stephan HOPPE (Ludwig‐Maximilians‐Universität Munich)
The Stuben Apartment System, its Development and Use at the Lesser
German Residence Schloesser (1470–1648)

11.45
Monique CHATENET (Centre André Chastel, INHA, Paris)
From Valois to Bourbon: The Origin and Development of the Grand
Appartement

12.30 Lunch

Session chair: Krista DE JONGE (University of Leuven)

13.30
Nuno SENOS (CHAM, Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
The Apartment System in Portugal in the Sixteenth century

14.15
José Eloy HORTAL MUÑOZ (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid)
Reality or Myth. The 'Domestication' of the Nobility through the
Codification of Space and Ceremonial: Etiquettes and Ordinances of
Philip III and Philip IV of Spain (1598–1665)

15.00 Coffee Break

15.30
Konrad OTTENHEYM (University of Utrecht)
Between Paris and London. The Residences of the Prince of Orange in
Seventeenth‐Century Holland

16.15
Fabian PERSSON (Linnaeus University)
Royal Residences of the North: Sweden and Denmark in the Early Modern
Period

17.00 End of Session I


Thursday 5 March

Session II. Interconnected Areas: The Sacred Space and its Place in the
Spatial Network of the Residence
Session chair: Stephan HOPPE (Ludwig‐Maximilians‐Universität Munich)

9.00
Birgitte BØGGILD JOHANNSEN (National Museum of Denmark)
Between Altar, Throne and Tomb: Connecting the Sacred and the Profane in
Residential Spaces of Late Medieval and Early Modern Denmark

9.45
Simon THURLEY (English Heritage)
Sacred Space and the Reformation at the Tudor and Stuart Court

10.30 Coffee Break

Session chair: Ute ENGEL (Ludwig‐Maximilians‐Universität Munich)

11.00
Ivan Prokop MUCHKA (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
Between the Hofburg in Prague and the Palaces of Wallenstein: The Role
of National Patrons, especially St. Wenceslas

11.45
Alexandre GADY (Centre André Chastel, Université Paris IV Sorbonne)
'God Save the (French) King'. Chapels in the Bourbon Palaces (17th–18th
centuries)

12.30 Lunch

13.30
Paolo CORNAGLIA (Politecnico di Torino)
From the Chapel to the Prie‐dieu: Sacred Spaces and Residences at the
Court of Savoy (1580–1730)

14.15 End of Session II

14.30 Excursion to Munich Residence


Friday 6 March

Session III. Meaningful Architecture: Exterior and Interior Decoration
Programmes and the Semantics of Building
Session chair: Konrad OTTENHEYM (University of Utrecht)

9.00
Renate HOLZSCHUH‐HOFER (Bundesdenkmalamt Vienna)
The Implementation of the Burgundian Heritage in Central Europe under
Ferdinand I, 1521–1564

9.45
Heiko LAß (independent scholar, Hannover)
Images of Status. Princely and Knightly Residences in the Holy Roman
Empire, 1400–1700

10.30 Coffee Break

11.00
Matthias MÜLLER (Universität Mainz)
Visualizing Princely Virtues: On the Significance of Functional Elements
in 15th‐ and 16th‐ Century German Palaces

11.45
Barbara ARCISZEWSKA (Warsaw University)
Court Architecture and Interior Decoration in the Polish–Lithuanian
Commonwealth, 1400–1700: A Reassessment

12.30 Lunch

Session chair: Mark HENGERER (Ludwig‐Maximilians‐Universität Munich)

13.30
Herbert KARNER (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
The Facade of an Emperor: Leopold I and the Imperial Semantics of the
Viennese Hofburg

14.15
Christina STRUNCK (Philipps‐Universität Marburg)
Architecture and Fiction in Italian Court Residences

15.00 Coffee Break

15.30
Sara GALLETTI (Duke University)
The Luxembourg Palace of Maria de' Medici, 1611–1631

16.15 Conclusions

17.00
PALATIUM Steering Committee Meeting
For PALATIUM SC members only


Saturday 7 March

Excursion to Landshut (Trausnitz Castle & Stadtresidenz)
For speakers and registered participants


Organization: ESF Research Networking Programme PALATIUM & Institut für
Kunstgeschichte - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

Registration: Free, but registration is required.

Programme, Abstracts, Registration Form:
http://www.courtresidences.eu/index.php/events/conferences/munich2015/