Sacred Spectacle as Transgression of the Borders between Media. The Festivities for the Canonization of Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier in the Low Countries (1622)

Dekoninck, Ralph;Delfosse, Annick;De Marco, Rosa;Heering, Caroline
(2017) Winning Hearts and Minds: Multimedia Events, Religious Communication and the Urban Context in the Long Sixteenth Century — Location: Ghent University (1.June.2017)

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If there could be said to be a laboratory of intermediality in the early modern period, then it must certainly be the urban festival, a multimedia reality if ever there were one, in which a great variety of artistic realities and performances were blended, or even amalgamated. At least, this is how the federal project ‘Culture of the baroque spectacle between Italy and the Low Countries’ [fig. 1: the site web], financed by Belspo and which we represent here today, has chosen to recognize these ephemeral phenomena. While the goal of these spectacles was to communicate politico-religious messages, these messages made themselves felt as much, if not more, through their form as through their content, through their effects as through their meanings. If representations of power, whatever the medium, imposed themselves on sight and mind it was therefore above all - and this is our theory - through the powers of representation, which are pre-eminently sensible and not merely symbolic. Such a sensible imposition of power worked through scholarly and complex assemblages of a variety of media whose artificial nature was either praised or disputed, ostentation and illusion being the principal resources of the spectacular.
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Dekoninck, R., Delfosse, A., De Marco, R., & Heering, C. (2017). Sacred Spectacle as Transgression of the Borders between Media. The Festivities for the Canonization of Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier in the Low Countries (1622). Winning Hearts and Minds: Multimedia Events, Religious Communication and the Urban Context in the Long Sixteenth Century, Ghent University. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/55022