Studying the senses of ornamental and framing devices of the Baroque festival
(2015) Critical perspectives on the early modern festival culture of the Southern Netherlands and Italy — submitted
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- Among the various mediums gathered to frame the Baroque festival, ornamentation has a central role in the transformative effects of the feast. Indeed, next to the symbolical meaning it often takes on, ornament has also to be understood as an agent that intensifies, enlivens but also hides and transforms objects and space by uniting and merging all levels of representation with various materials and devices. The decoration connects not only the mediums among other, but also, in a broader way, arts and life, and therefore spectators transfigure themselves into actors of this new space-time. In this paper, through the study of reports and engravings of Jesuit festivities, especially in the Low Countries, I would like to stress these other senses of ornament, namely those of direction (i.e. its operating devices) and sensibility (i.e. its aesthetic effects), in order to comprehend the powerful efficiency of the ornamentation of the festival apparatus.
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Heering, C. (2015). Studying the senses of ornamental and framing devices of the Baroque festival. In Delbeke, Maarten (ed.), Critical perspectives on the early modern festival culture of the Southern Netherlands and Italy. Ashgate. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/21977