Architectures of Festival in Early Modern Europe : Fashioning and Re-Fashioning Urban and Courtly Space. / edited by J.R. Mulryne, Krista de Jonge, Pieter Martens, and R.L.M. Morris

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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of plates -- Contributors -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction: making space for festival -- 1 A productive conflict: the Colosseum and early modern religious performance -- 2 A new sack of Rome? Making space for Charles V in 1536 -- 3 Vienna, a Habsburg capital redecorated in classical style: the entry of Maximilian II as King of the Romans in 1563 -- 4 Fountains of wine and water and the refashioning of urban space in the 1565 Entrata to Florence -- 5 Making the best of what they had: adaptations of indoor and outdoor space for royal ceremony in Scotland c. 1214-1603 -- 6 From ephemeral to permanent architecture: the Venetian palazzo in the second half of the seventeenth century -- 7 Contested ideals: designing and making temporary structures for the Entrée of Louis XIV into Paris, August 1660 -- 8 Overcrowding at court: a Renaissance problem and its solution: temporary theatres and banquet halls -- 9 Transformed gardens: the trompe-l'œil scenery of the Versailles festivals (1664-1674) -- 10 Ephemeral and permanent architecture during the age of Ercole I d'Este in Ferrara (1471-1505) -- 11 'Ascendendo et descendendo aequaliter': stairs and ceremonies in early modern Venice -- 12 Permanent places for festivals at the Habsburg court in Innsbruck: the 'comedy houses' of 1628 and 1654 -- 13 La Favorita festeggiante: the imperial summer residence of the Habsburgs as festive venue -- 14 Between props and sets: the Menus Plaisirs administration and space conversions in the French court, 1660-1700 -- Index.