INTERVENCIONES EN SEMINARIOS Y CONGRESOS DE LOS INVESTIGADORES DEL PROYECTO DIMH (I)

En los últimos meses de 2014 varios investigadores del Proyecto DIMH participaron en varios congresos, seminarios y reuniones científicas.

– Alicia CÁMARA MUÑOZ estuvo en la Università MEDITERRANEA di Reggio Calabri (Italia) en el CONVEGNO INTERNAZIONALE DI STUDI: Progettare la difesa, rappresentare il territorio, secoli XVI-XVII. Il Codice Romano Carratelli, e la fortificazione nel Mediterraneo.

Alicia Cámara ofreció la conferencia inaugural titulada “A vista de ojos. La representación de la frontera marítima del Mediterráneo español en el siglo XVI”, además de coordinar la mesa de trabajo “Gli stati italiani e la difesa”, en la que participaron prestigiosos expertos internacionales sobre la materia.

Programa Reggio-Calabria 2014

– Fernando Cobos participó en Florianópolis (Brasil), en la Universidad Federal de Santa Catarina, dentro del Seminario Master plan and management plan for the Santa Catarina’s fortifications. El objetivo era” to disccus the relations between heritage, cultural landscape, sustainable development, master plan for the heritage and management plan for the fortifications, to establish comparative parameters and planning guidelines, intervention and management for the Santa Catarina’s fortifications.”

La intervención de Fernando Cobos se titulaba “Study methodology and interventon in master plans of large fortificatons and fortifications systems (La Mota, Ponferrada, Ibiza, border of Castilla and Portugal, and old border of León and Castilla).”

Programa St Catarina fortifications 2014

– Margarita-Ana Vázquez-Manassero participó en San Petersburgo (Rusia) en el 5^th International Annual Conference “Actual Problems of Art Theory and History” “Images of Classical Antiquity. Ancient Art and its Heritage in the World Culture”.

El trabajo presentado tenía por título “Twelve Caesars’ representations from Titian to the end of XVIIth century: military triumph images of the Spanish Monarchy”.

ABSTRACT: In 1536, Federico Gonzaga commissioned the series of paintings of “Twelve Caesars” from Titian for the decoration of his namesake gabinetto at the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua. It was a new archaeological and heroic interpretation of the Roman Antiquity, based on ancient medals and busts.

This series, nowadays lost, were bought for Philip IV of Spain for decorating the old Alcázar of Madrid. Likewise, Spanish Monarchy sculpture collection began with the acquisition of five complete series of busts of the Twelve Caesars during the reign of Philip II. Thus, from the late XVIth century, the Spanish Court, begins a recovery of these images of Classical Antiquity as “heroic ideal” while the Habsburgs transformed Twelve Caesars’ representations into an instrument for the legitimization of the classical provenance of its dynasty, as well as into the image of its military triumphs. This paper focuses on the analysis of modern reinterpretation and the dissemination mechanisms of this Twelve Emperor’s images, from the arrival of Titian’s series at the old Alcázar of Madrid to the end of XVIIth century. On the one hand, those representations of the Twelve Caesars’ that decorated palaces of the Spanish Monarchy will be identified, as well as the use of this iconography as a means of glorification of the Habsburg Emperors triumphal entries.

On the other hand, this collecting practices and the taste of the Spanish monarchs for the representations of Twelve Caesars’ would be emulated by the Spanish nobility of the time. Through identifying representations of the Twelve Caesars in the inventories of contemporary art collections of the Spanish nobility and providing new documentary evidences relating to commissions of such series, shall be established the remarkable diffusion reached by this classical Emperor’s images, transformed during the Spanish Golden Age into the representation of the modern warrior.