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Reflections of the Hidden Duchess and the Moon King: The Tabula Scalata and the Engaged Beholder in Sixteenth-Century Italy

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Wijnands C.

Ikonotheka

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2019

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vol. 29

79-101

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A tabula scalata consists of triangular slats painted on two sides and attached to a panel, creating a “double image”. Sometimes, a mirror was placed at straight angles of the upper frame, allowing the beholder to see both painted sides at the same time – but only when standing in the right position. This contribution analyses how these scarcely studied devices relied on the beholder’s active participation to convey intertwined layers of artistic, scientific, political, and poetic meanings. To do so, it discusses two sixteenth-century case studies. The first is a lost painting created in French royal court circles around 1550 and subsequently making its way to Rome as a diplomatic gift. The device combined a portrait of Henry II of France, a moon symbol, and a puzzle-ridden poem to convey interrelated political and poetic meanings. The second painting is Ludovico Buti’s Portrait of Charles III of Lorraine and Christina de’ Medici. It was commissioned by the Medici, and originally hung in a room filled with maps and geographical devices. This article considers three aspects central to the paintings’ reception: motion, sensory perception, and ideology. Operating in an intellectual culture fuelled by curiosity and designed to evoke wonder, these devices aimed to prolong the beholders’ attention by establishing thresholds within the artistic experience. As such, they straddled the vague boundaries between painting, scientific instrument, and poem to stimulate the beholders’ senses and involve them in an interactive game of meaning-making.

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Rej Górnickiego. Filologiczne śledztwo w sprawie skatologicznych „trefności”

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Stępień P.

Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo

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2017

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issue 7(10)

33-51

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The second book of The Polish Courtier, Łukasz Górnicki’s paraphrase of Castiglione’s The Book of The Courtier, contains a study of courtly jesting. This is where, among other jests, two scatological jokes attributed to Mikołaj Rej appear. Most scholars considered them as evidence of a coarse sense of humour, incompatible with courtly pleasantry. And yet Górnicki treated Rej’s witticisms as superb examples of sophisticated jesting. The article presents an analysis of these jokes in the context of Górnicki’s discourse on courtly wit, Castiglione’s The Book of The Courtier, Cicero’s De oratore, Renaissance jests and old Polish satirical poetry. The analysis reveals complexity, unobvious meanings and function of scatological witticisms attributed to Rej and allows to understand reasons for the high regard in which Górnicki held them.

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Królewicz się żeni. Uroczystości weselne Fryderyka Augusta Wettyna i Marii Józefy Habsburg na tle osiemnastowiecznej kultury dworskiej

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Kuras K.

Wschodni Rocznik Humanistyczny

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2020

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vol. XVII (2020)

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issue 3: Dwór w Rzeczypospolitej i państwach ościennych, pod red. Artura Goszczyńskiego i A. Selina

225-242

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Uroczystości weselne Fryderyka Augusta Wettyna i Marii Józefy Habsburg w Wiedniu i Dreźnie w 1719 r. były demonstracją aspiracji politycznych elektora saskiego i króla polskiego Augusta II oraz potencjału gospodarczego i kulturalnego Saksonii. Zostały one zaaranżowane z uwzględnieniem schematu typowego dla kultury dworskiej z przełomu XVII/XVIII w. i wzbogacone o komponent lokalny, czyli zmultiplikowany cykl rozrywek, praktykowanych w czasie karnawałów w Dreźnie. Celem artykułu jest analiza uroczystości z 1719 r. w kontekście różnych poziomów komunikacji pomiędzy władcą i poddanymi oraz porównanie ich ze schematami właściwymi dla innych państw europejskich.

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The wedding ceremonies of Frederick Augustus Wettin and Mary Josepha Habsburg in Vienna and Dresden in 1719 were organized to demonstrate the political aspirations of the Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, Augustus II, and the economic and cultural richness of his countries. They were arranged in accordance with the scheme typical to the court culture of the 17th and 18th centuries and enriched with a local component, i.e. a multiplied cycle of carnival entertainments. The aim of the article is to analyse the celebrations of 1719 in the context of different levels of communication between the ruler and the subjects and to compare them with the patterns specific to the others European countries.

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Свадебные церемонии Фридриха Августа Веттина и Марии Юзефы Габсбург в Вене и Дрездене в 1719 году были демонстрацией политических устремлений саксонского курфюрста и польского короля Августа II, а также экономического и культурного потенциала Саксонии. Они были организованы с учетом закономерностей, характерных для придворной культуры на рубеже XVII - XVIII веков, и обогащены местным компонентом, то есть многократным развлекательным циклом, практикуемым во время карнавалов в Дрездене. Цель статьи - проанализировать празднования 1719 года в контексте разных уровней общения правителя и его подданных и сравнить их с моделями других европейских стран.

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Reflections of the Hidden Duchess and the Moon King: The Tabula Scalata and the Engaged Beholder in Sixteenth-Century Italy

Rej Górnickiego. Filologiczne śledztwo w sprawie skatologicznych „trefności”

Królewicz się żeni. Uroczystości weselne Fryderyka Augusta Wettyna i Marii Józefy Habsburg na tle osiemnastowiecznej kultury dworskiej