Wednesday, 15 March – LISBON, Carmo Convent
09:00 – 09:15 – arrival of the participants, inscription
09:15 – 09:45 – welcome
09:45 – 10:30 – Opening Lecture
Ana Isabel Buescu (Lisbon): Intérieurs. Salles d’apparat et cérémonies royales au Portugal au XVIe siècle – quelques notes
coffee break
11:00 – 12:30 – Early State-Rooms
Sabine Sommerer (Zurich, CH): The Eloquence of the King’s Chamber. Descriptions of Royal Palaces from the 10th-14th Century
Julie Marquer (Lyon, F): Les salles d’apparat de l’Alcazar du roi Pierre Ier à Séville (XIVe siècle)
Solveig Bourocher (Tours, F): Les décors intérieurs et extérieurs de la grande salle du logis ducal de Loches au service du pouvoir de Louis Ier d’Anjou (1370-1378)
12:30 – 14:30 – lunch & guided tour at the Archeological Museum in the Carmo Convent
14:30 – 16:00 – State-Rooms in Italian Duchies
Matteo Ferrari (Poitiers, F): Le prince et son image. L’ornementation picturale des résidences seigneuriales de Galéas II et Barnabé Visconti
Francesca Tasso, Tosi Luca (Milan, I): Sala dei Moroni in the so called Cortile Ducale (Ducal Courtyard) in Castello Sforzesco
Silvia Marin Barutcieff, Ștefan Barutcieff (Bucharest, RO): From Sacred Art to the Art of Politics. Mural Paintings and the 15th Century Iconographic Discourse of St. George’s Castle in Mantua
coffee break
16:30 – 18:00 – Between Republican and Princely Décor
Laura Cirri (Florence, I): The use of the imprese in the Medicean iconography of power: evolution and consolidation through the 15th and 16th centuries
Alessandro Savorelli (Florence, I): La Grande Salle de “Palazzo Vecchio” à Florence: la représentation du pouvoir entre république et seigneurie
Dorit Malz (Florence, I): Jupiter and Neptune as Emperor Charles V and Andrea I Doria. Changing allusions at the Genovese court
19:30 – dinner
Thursday, 16 March - SINTRA, Town Palace
09:11 departure from Lisbon (Rossio station)
10:30 – 10:45 – welcome at Sintra
10:45 – 11:45 – guided tour at the Town Palace
coffee break
12:00 – 13:00 – The Sala dos Brasões I
Miguel Metelo de Seixas (Lisbon): La ‘sala dos brasões’ de Sintra: approches et enjeux historiographiques
Christian de Mérindol (Paris, F): A propos du Palais de Sintra, les priorités directionnelles et autres références
13:00 – 14:30: déjeuner
14:30 – 15:30 – La Sala dos Brasões II
Pedro Flor (Lisbon): Decorating spaces: Artistic strategies of King Manuel I and the great hall of Sintra royal palace
Laurent Hablot (Paris, F): Des cerfs et des armoiries. Emblématique et symbolique du cerf écuyer dans la représentation du pouvoir à la fin du Moyen Age
coffee break
16:00 – 17:30 – Other state-rooms in Portugal
Helder Carita (Lisbon): Les salles d’apparat au Palais des Vice-Rois à Goa
Nuno Senos (Lisbon): The Great Hall of the Ducal Palace of Vila Viçosa
Milton Parcheo (Coimbra): A king between gods and heroes: The iconographic program of the Palace of Ribeira throne room during the reform of D. Filipe I of Portugal
17:30 – 19:00 visit of the Pena Castle
19:30 dinner and return to Lisbon
Friday, 17 March - LISBON, Carmo Convent
09:00 – 10:00 – Décor and Ephemeral Art
Marie Koehn (Strasbourg, F / Münster, D): Décor de table et mise en scène du pouvoir princière. Le mariage de Charles le Téméraire (1468)
Pierre Couhault (Paris, F): Un décor d’or, de soie et de laine. À propos du choix des tapisseries dans l’ornementation de la grande salle du palais de Bruxelles (XVe‐XVIe siècles)
coffee break
10:30 – 11:30 – Further perspectives
Isabel Monteiro (Lisbon): Music in Portuguese Renaissance Courts: Performers, Context and Places
James Hillson (Cambridge, UK): Inheriting St Stephen’s Chapel: A Palace Chapel as State-Room at Westminster, 1348-1450
coffee break
12:00 – 12:30 – conclusions and final discussion
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The workshop is organised by Torsten Hiltmann (Münster), Miguel Metelo de Seixas (Lisbon), and João Portugal (Lisbon) as part of the Portuguese-German research project ‘In the Service of the Crown: The Use of Heraldry in Royal Political Communication in Late Medieval Portugal’, funded by the VolkswagenFoundation. It is supported furthermore by the Palácio Nacional de Sintra; the Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses; the Instituto Português de Heráldica.