Wednesday 25.10.2023

14.30 Reception
15.00 Conference Opening

15.10 - 16.30 Court structure and ceremonial

15.10 Court Cultural Exchanges on Royal Works between the Habsburg Netherlands and the Iberian Peninsula (XIV-XVIIth centuries) / José Eloy Hortal Muñoz (University Rey Juan Carlos)

15.30 From Compromise to Radicalism: The Political Ideas of Maximilian Vilain, lord of Ressegem / Jonathan Dumont (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

15.50 Some reflections on Flemish "Decorative Painters" at the Court of Charles V in the Iberian Peninsula. The case of Jan and Jacob van Battel / Ana Diéguez Rodríguez and África Espíldora García (Instituto Moll. Centre for Research in Flemish Painting)

16.10 Discussion

17.00 – 18.00 Relationships between court and city
17.00 Luxury arts of the Spanish Renaissance / Jesús Pascual Molina and Miguel Ángel Zalama (University of Valladolid)
17.20 Vicente Álvarez and his description of the princely visit of Philip II to Flanders in 1549-1550 / Raymond Fagel (Leiden University)
17.40 Discussion
 

Thursday 26.10.2023

10.00 - 11.00 Court festivities and rituals
10.00 Winning over a Spanish Princess: Joanna of Castile's visit to the City of Brussels in December 1496 / Dagmar Eichberger (University of Heidelberg)
10.20 Emblematic resonances in the triumphal entrances of Charles V: Visual and symbolic language for the Universal Empire
/ Inmaculada Rodríguez Moya and Víctor Mínguez (University Jaume I)
10.40 Discussion

11.30 - 12.50 Ecclesiastical dignitaries between the North and the South
11.30 The Altarpiece of San Ildefonso commissioned in the Low Countries by Juan Alfonso de Logroño: study of panels from Museo del Prado and proposal of attribution / José Juan Pérez Preciado (Museo Nacional del Prado)
11.50 Cultural transfers at the Castilian court: Diego Ramírez de Villaescusa and Flanders / Alejandro Sáez Olivares (University Rey Juan Carlos)
12.10 The Creation, Characteristics, and Geopolitical Functions of the Post-Tridentine Apostolic Nunciature in Flanders (c. 1590- 1605) / Dorota Gregorowicz (University of Silesia in Katowice)
12.30 Discussion

15.00 - 16.00 Images of power and portraits
15.00 Searching for a court painter in the Low Countries and a portrait of Ambassador Francisco de Rojas by Hans Memling Oskar J. Rojewski (University of Silesia in Katowice – University Rey Juan Carlos)
15.20 The making of an Emperor – the emergence of State Portraiture. Imperial representations of the House of Habsburg, their precursors and aftermath / Till-Holger Borchert (Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum in Aachen)
15.40 Discussion

16.30 - 17.50 The reception of Iberian communities and traditions in the Low Countries court circles and Flemish communities in Iberian court contexts
16.30 The Grimons: a family of Flemish origin in Tenerife Island (XVth-XVIth centuries) / Elena Vázquez Dueñas (Complutense University of Madrid)
16.50 The Flemish artists by the hands of Cardinal Granvela at the court of Philipe II / Almudena Pérez de Tudela (Patrimonio Nacional)
17.10 Re-thinking Seventeenth-Century Sculptures of Baby Jesus in Habsburg Royal Convents in Madrid and Brussels / Cordula van Wyhe (University of York)
17.30 Discussion

Friday 27.10.2023

12.00 - 13.30 Cultural exchange through trade and travel
12.00 Cultural transfer through knightly traffic? The travels of Jacques de Lalaing (c. 1421–53) to the Iberian Peninsula / Mario Damen (University of Amsterdam)
12.20 Back and forth between Brabant and Castile Courtly networks of the Cuemans dynasty / Olivier Kik (KIK-IRPA Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage)
12.40 Felipe Bigarny: a courtly and entrepreneurial artist in the service of the Habsburg / Eduardo Lamas (KIK-IRPA Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage)
13.00 Discussion

13.20 Closing remarks