This book accounts for the outpouring of celebrations in the Habsburg Empire upon the 1657 birth of Felipe Próspero, heir to Philip IV of Spain. These celebrations allow us to interrogate the shifting uses of performance in the empire’s center and periphery. Such spectacles could work to contain and manipulate public sentiment, but at other moments they questioned sanctioned power structures. A study of zarzuela texts, opera libretti, notated music, paintings, poems, and historical documents shows that an array of people took advantage of this festive moment to question the empire’s policies in surprising ways. Sensorial experience played a crucial role during these celebrations. For its part, the Crown engaged a variety of senses, especially sight, sound, and smell, in order to augment the impact of royal spectacles. But simultaneously, those who questioned the Crown also did so through an engagement of the sensorial world.
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Prince Felipe Próspero, Festival Culture, and the Performative Sense
- 1. Calderón de la Barca, Rubens, and Apollo’s Desire
- 2. Antonio de Solís, Velázquez, and Minerva’s Competition
- 3. Naples, Opera, and Parthenope’s Song
- 4. Florence, Cavalli, and Ipermestra’s Choice
- 5. Parades, Poetry, and Plus Ultra in Lima and Manila
- Epilogue: Making Sense of Spectacle
- Works Cited
- Index
- List of Illustrations
- Figures
- Fig. 1. Velázquez, Diego. Prince Felipe Próspero, 1659. Oil on canvas, 129 cm × 100 cm. © KHM-Museumsverband Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
- Fig. 2. Rubens, Peter Paul and Jan Brueghel the Elder. El oído, 1617–18. Oil on panel, 64 cm × 109.5 cm, (Catalogue Number P0001395). © Photographic Archive Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain, Museo Nacional del Prado.
- Fig. 3. Thulden, Theodoor van. Apolo persiguiendo a Dafne, 1636–38. Oil on canvas, 193 cm × 207 cm, (Catalogue Number P001714). © Photographic Archive Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain, Museo Nacional del Prado.
- Fig. 4. Rubens, Peter Paul. Apollo and Daphne, c. 1636. Oil on wood, 27 cm × 26 cm. Photo by René-Gabriel Ojéda. Inv CM34. ART446312 Photo Credit: © RMN-Grand Palais/Art Resource, NY. Located in the Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne, France.
- Fig. 5. Pollaiuolo, Piero del. Apollo and Daphne, c. 1470–80. Oil on wood, 29.5 cm × 20 cm. © The National Gallery, London, U.K.
- Fig. 6. Poussin, Nicolas. Apollo and Daphne, 1661–64. Oil on canvas, 97 cm × 131 cm. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons. Located in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich.
- Fig. 7. Bernini, Gian Lorenzo. Apollo and Daphne, 1622–25, Marble sculpture, 243 cm. Architas on Wikipedia. Located in the Borghese Gallery, Rome, Italy.
- Fig. 8. Velázquez, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y, Las hilanderas o la fábula de Aracne, 1655–60. Oil on canvas, 220 cm × 289 cm, (Catalogue number P001173). © Photographic Archive Museo Nacional del Prado Madrid, Spain, Museo Nacional del Prado.
- Fig. 9. Nola, Giovanni da. Fountain of the Spinacorona, c. 1550. Marble. Photograph is of a copy is by Achille D’Orsi, c. 1920. Photograph by Carlo Raso, Wikimedia Creative Commons Public Domain. Located in Naples, Italy. Original housed in Museo di San M
- Fig. 10. Capaccio, Giulio Cesare. Illustration of Parthenope, Delle imprese trattato, 1592. Getty Research Institute, Internet Archive.
- Fig. 11. Moniglia, Giovanni Andrea. Là Hipermestra festa teatrale rappresentata dal sereniss. principe cardinale Gio. Carlo di Toscana per celebrare il giorno natalizio del real principe di Spagna, 1658. Beinecke Library, Yale University.
- Fig. 12. Moniglia, Giovanni Andrea. Là Hipermestra festa teatrale rappresentata dal sereniss. principe cardinale Gio. Carlo di Toscana per celebrare il giorno natalizio del real principe di Spagna, 1658. Beinecke Library, Yale University.
- Fig. 13. Moniglia, Giovanni Andrea. Là Hipermestra festa teatrale rappresentata dal sereniss. principe cardinale Gio. Carlo di Toscana per celebrare il giorno natalizio del real principe di Spagna, 1658. Beinecke Library, Yale University.
- Fig. 14. Moniglia, Giovanni Andrea. Là Hipermestra festa teatrale rappresentata dal sereniss. principe cardinale Gio. Carlo di Toscana per celebrare il giorno natalizio del real principe di Spagna, 1658. Beinecke Library, Yale University.
- Fig. 15. Moniglia, Giovanni Andrea. Là Hipermestra festa teatrale rappresentata dal sereniss. principe cardinale Gio. Carlo di Toscana per celebrare il giorno natalizio del real principe di Spagna, 1658. Beinecke Library, Yale University.
- Examples
- Ex. 1. Juan Hidalgo, De Zintia adoro rendido, Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, M–3880/48.34
- Ex. 2. Juan Hidalgo, Vuelve tirano, aligero, Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, M–3880/44.
- Ex. 3 “Suspension,” Encyclopedia Britannica. February 7, 2022,
https://www.britannica.com/art/suspension-music.
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