Magnificence in the Seventeenth Century

Gijs Versteegen, Ph.D., is lecturer in early modern history at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Madrid). He researched court philosophy and the reception of court culture in enlightened and liberal historiography, publishing the monograph Corte y Estado en la historiografía liberal: un cambio de paradigma (Madrid: 2015).Stijn Bussels. Ph.D. (2005, Ghent University) is Professor of Art History at the Leiden University. He has published widely on the intersections between the visual arts, theatre and spectacle in the early modern Low Countries. He is the author of The Antwerp Entry of Prince Philip in 1549. Rhetoric, Performance and Power (Rodopi 2012).Walter S. Melion is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University. He has published widely on early modern image cultures, on the art and art theory of the Low Countries, on scriptural image-making, on emblems and emblematics, and on Jesuit image theory.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on the EditorsNotes on the ContributorsIntroductionGijs Versteegen and Stijn BusselsPart 1: Traditions of Thought on Magnificence1 Early Modern Readings of Aristotle’s Theory of Magnificence in the EthicsMatthias Roick2 Medieval Background to Magnificence in Habsburg Spain: King Solomon as Enduring Exemplar of Divine WorshipJorge Fernández-Santos3 Magnificence between Effect of Power and Power of EffectMichèle-Caroline HeckPart 2: The Court and Aristocracy4 The Hall of Realms, a Space for Royal MagnificenceMiguel Hermoso Cuesta5 Magnificence, Power, and Private Finance in the Seventeenth Century: Flavio Orsini and Marie-Anne de La Trémoille, between Rome and Paris (1675–1686)Anne-Madeleine Goulet6 The Magnificence of the Royal Household and Royal Sites: The Case of the Spanish MonarchyFélix Labrador Arroyo and José Eloy Hortal Muñoz7 Educating Magnificence: Juan Eusebio Nieremberg on Ascesis and Splendour in his Manual for the Reales Estudios of the Colegio Imperial at MadridGijs VersteegenPart 3: Architecture8 Building Magnificence in the Dutch Golden Age: the Amsterdam Town HallStijn Bussels and Bram Van Oostveldt9 Maiestate Tantum: Spiritual Magnificence at the Cappella dei PrincipiLindsay Alberts10 Magnificence Exemplified: the Restoration of the Old St. Paul’s LondonAnne-Françoise Morel11 Magnificent! Gaspar Fagel’s Plant Collection at LeeuwenhorstElizabeth den HartogPart 4: Performance12 Magnificence and Atticism in Seventeenth-Century VeniceAlessandro Metlica13 Magnificence and Regality in Milanese Celebratory Sets: The Birth of Balthasar Charles and Exequies in the Epoch of Philip IVAlessandra Mignatti14 The Ducal Stage: Festive Culture and the Display of Magnificence in Seventeenth-Century WürttembergKathrin Stocker15 The Libertine Subversion of the Masque: The Case of John Wilmot’s Lucina’s RapeKlaas Tindemans16 Magnificence as Aesthetic Category in Court Plays: Molière’s Les Amants Magnifiques (The Magnificent Lovers)Victoire MalenferIndex Nominum