Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

The Court in the City, the City in the Court Denis van Alsloot's depictions of the 1615 Brussels 'ommegang'

The Court in the City, the City in the Court Denis van Alsloot's depictions of the 1615 Brussels... The Court in the City, the City in the Court Denis van Alsloot's depictions ofthe 1615 Brussels 'ommegang' Margit Th0fner This essay will explore an aspect often neglected in the study of courtly and civic ceremony: the specific issues arising from the use of visual sources. It is conceived as a case study of one of the best known depictions of Netherlandish civic spectacle, the four extant paintings of the 1615 performance of the Brussels annual procession known as the 'ommegang' (fig. I, 2, 3, 4, 5). These paintings were made by Denis van Alsloot (before 1573-1625 or 1626) for his patron the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia (15661633), joint sovereign of the Spanish Netherlands. 1 Although the Infanta originally commissioned eight paintings, it seems that only six were actually made and of those six only four have survived. 2 Moreover, one painting has been cut down and divided in two (fig. 2, 3); luckily, an early copy survives (fig. 6). Alsloot's four extant paintings portray the ommegang in great detail. Two images show the craft guilds and militia guilds of Brussels respectively (fig. I, 2,3). Both types of guild are depicted marching against a background of identifiabie civic http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek Online Brill

The Court in the City, the City in the Court Denis van Alsloot's depictions of the 1615 Brussels 'ommegang'

Download PDF
26 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/brill/the-court-in-the-city-the-city-in-the-court-denis-van-alsloot-s-iqUfgTMWa2

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Brill
Copyright
Copyright 1998 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0169-6726
eISSN
2214-5966
DOI
10.1163/22145966-90000721
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

The Court in the City, the City in the Court Denis van Alsloot's depictions ofthe 1615 Brussels 'ommegang' Margit Th0fner This essay will explore an aspect often neglected in the study of courtly and civic ceremony: the specific issues arising from the use of visual sources. It is conceived as a case study of one of the best known depictions of Netherlandish civic spectacle, the four extant paintings of the 1615 performance of the Brussels annual procession known as the 'ommegang' (fig. I, 2, 3, 4, 5). These paintings were made by Denis van Alsloot (before 1573-1625 or 1626) for his patron the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia (15661633), joint sovereign of the Spanish Netherlands. 1 Although the Infanta originally commissioned eight paintings, it seems that only six were actually made and of those six only four have survived. 2 Moreover, one painting has been cut down and divided in two (fig. 2, 3); luckily, an early copy survives (fig. 6). Alsloot's four extant paintings portray the ommegang in great detail. Two images show the craft guilds and militia guilds of Brussels respectively (fig. I, 2,3). Both types of guild are depicted marching against a background of identifiabie civic

Journal

Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art / Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek Online – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1998

There are no references for this article.