Sense and Spectacle in the Age of Philip IV : Performing Empire in Word, Music, and Image / Mary Quinn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quinn, Mary, author.

Series:

Connected histories in the early modern world.

Connected Histories in the Early Modern World Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spain--History--Philip IV, 1621-1665.

Spain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (213 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.

Summary:

This book accounts for the outpouring of celebrations in the Habsburg Empire upon the 1657 birth of Felipe Próspero, heir to Philip IV of Spain.These celebrations allow us to interrogate the shifting uses of performance in the empire's center and periphery.

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Prince Felipe Próspero, Festival Culture, and the Performative Sense

1. Calderón de la Barca, Rubens, and Apollo’s Desire

2. Antonio de Solís, Velázquez, and Minerva’s Competition

3. Naples, Opera, and Parthenope’s Song

4. Florence, Cavalli, and Ipermestra’s Choice

5. Parades, Poetry, and Plus Ultra in Lima and Manila

Epilogue: Making Sense of Spectacle

Works Cited

Index

List of Illustrations

Figures

Fig. 1. Velázquez, Diego. Prince Felipe Próspero, 1659. Oil on canvas, 129 cm × 100 cm. © KHM-Museumsverband Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.

Fig. 2. Rubens, Peter Paul and Jan Brueghel the Elder. El oído, 1617–18. Oil on panel, 64 cm × 109.5 cm, (Catalogue Number P0001395). © Photographic Archive Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain, Museo Nacional del Prado.

Fig. 3. Thulden, Theodoor van. Apolo persiguiendo a Dafne, 1636–38. Oil on canvas, 193 cm × 207 cm, (Catalogue Number P001714). © Photographic Archive Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain, Museo Nacional del Prado.

Fig. 4. Rubens, Peter Paul. Apollo and Daphne, c. 1636. Oil on wood, 27 cm × 26 cm. Photo by René-Gabriel Ojéda. Inv CM34. ART446312 Photo Credit: © RMN-Grand Palais/Art Resource, NY. Located in the Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne, France.

Fig. 5. Pollaiuolo, Piero del. Apollo and Daphne, c. 1470–80. Oil on wood, 29.5 cm × 20 cm. © The National Gallery, London, U.K.

Fig. 6. Poussin, Nicolas. Apollo and Daphne, 1661–64. Oil on canvas, 97 cm × 131 cm. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons. Located in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich.

Fig. 7. Bernini, Gian Lorenzo. Apollo and Daphne, 1622–25, Marble sculpture, 243 cm. Architas on Wikipedia. Located in the Borghese Gallery, Rome, Italy.

Fig. 8. Velázquez, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y, Las hilanderas o la fábula de Aracne, 1655–60. Oil on canvas, 220 cm × 289 cm, (Catalogue number P001173). © Photographic Archive Museo Nacional del Prado Madrid, Spain, Museo Nacional del Prado.

Fig. 9. Nola, Giovanni da. Fountain of the Spinacorona, c. 1550. Marble. Photograph is of a copy is by Achille D’Orsi, c. 1920. Photograph by Carlo Raso, Wikimedia Creative Commons Public Domain. Located in Naples, Italy. Original housed in Museo di San M

Fig. 10. Capaccio, Giulio Cesare. Illustration of Parthenope, Delle imprese trattato, 1592. Getty Research Institute, Internet Archive.

Fig. 11. Moniglia, Giovanni Andrea. Là Hipermestra festa teatrale rappresentata dal sereniss. principe cardinale Gio. Carlo di Toscana per celebrare il giorno natalizio del real principe di Spagna, 1658. Beinecke Library, Yale University.

Fig. 12. Moniglia, Giovanni Andrea. Là Hipermestra festa teatrale rappresentata dal sereniss. principe cardinale Gio. Carlo di Toscana per celebrare il giorno natalizio del real principe di Spagna, 1658. Beinecke Library, Yale University.

Fig. 13. Moniglia, Giovanni Andrea. Là Hipermestra festa teatrale rappresentata dal sereniss. principe cardinale Gio. Carlo di Toscana per celebrare il giorno natalizio del real principe di Spagna, 1658. Beinecke Library, Yale University.

Fig. 14. Moniglia, Giovanni Andrea. Là Hipermestra festa teatrale rappresentata dal sereniss. principe cardinale Gio. Carlo di Toscana per celebrare il giorno natalizio del real principe di Spagna, 1658. Beinecke Library, Yale University.

Fig. 15. Moniglia, Giovanni Andrea. Là Hipermestra festa teatrale rappresentata dal sereniss. principe cardinale Gio. Carlo di Toscana per celebrare il giorno natalizio del real principe di Spagna, 1658. Beinecke Library, Yale University.

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ISBN:

1-003-70350-X

90-485-6306-2

9781003703501

OCLC:

1463338855

Publisher Number:

CIPO000299146