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Written and composed to serve as a gift to duke August the Younger of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, this... more Written and composed to serve as a gift to duke August the Younger of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, this piece of music celebrated the recuperation of his residence, the fortress of Wolfenbüttel, after lengthy negotiations with its Imperial occupiers during the Thirty Years War. It heralded the end of the war in the duchy.
Performance of the manuscript score (Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv Wolfenbüttel) on 13 November 2021 during the annual Van Gelder lecture at Teylers Museum, Haarlem.
Performers: Sofia Pedro (soprano), Saartje Schrage (viola da gamba), David Mackor (theorbo), led by Fernando Aguado. 3 views
Articles by Eelco Nagelsmit
Virtus: Journal of Nobility Studies 29, 2022
de Welfen, als eerste protestantse vorst een deelvrede met de katholieke keizer (afb. 1). Zo gaf ... more de Welfen, als eerste protestantse vorst een deelvrede met de katholieke keizer (afb. 1). Zo gaf hij de aanzet tot beëindiging van dit desastreuse conflict, dat in de rest van de Duitse landen nog zes jaar zou voortduren. 2 De vredesonderhandelingen zouden worden afgesloten met de inbezitname door de hertog van zijn officiële residentie, de vestingstad Wolfenbüttel, die de voorgaande zestien jaar door keizerlijke troepen was bezet, d.w.z. ruim voordat hertog August in 1635 onverwachts regent van het hertogdom werd. Er waren echter de nodige obstakels voordat de vesting, die tijdens de oorlog van cruciaal strategisch belang was, kon worden overgedragen. In dezelfde periode, vanaf 1641, onderhield hertog August een levendige correspondentie met de irenisch-georiënteerde Lutherse theoloog Johann Valentin Andreae (1586-1654) (afb. 2). 3 Andreae, die een kerkelijke functie had aan het hof in Stuttgart, zou de hertog in
Bulletin du Centre de recherche du château de Versailles, 2021
This article offers a new interpretation of the portrait of Madame de Maintenon, in which Pierre ... more This article offers a new interpretation of the portrait of Madame de Maintenon, in which Pierre Mignard depicted the secret wife of Louis XIV as Saint Frances of Rome. Celebrated in its time as a witty conceit, the portrait has been taken at face value, neglecting the intricacy of its iconography in relation to the equivocal status of the sitter. By combining art historical and church historical approaches, we shed light on the function of the portrait in the political and religious context of the court of Louis XIV. The study of little-known sources on Maintenon’s devotional practices allows us to reconstruct the agenda behind its creation. We argue that the artist played with the conventions of portraiture, using the analogy between the secret spouse and the saint to produce more than just a historiated portrait, but rather a ‘visual parable’. As a strategic intervention in Maintenon’s public image at a critical junction, it dissimulated her status as wife of the king while projecting a specific image of her religious persona in relation to the world.
The Transformation of Vernacular Expression in Early Modern Arts, 2012
Book chapters by Eelco Nagelsmit
‘Quid est secretum?’: On the Visual Representation of Mystery and Secrecy in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700 , 2020
Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture, 2018
in: R. Dekoninck, M. Delbeke, A. Delfosse, C. Heering, K. Vermeir (eds.), Cultures du Spectacle Baroque. Cadres, expériences et représentations des solennités religieuses entre Italie et anciens Pays-Bas, 2019
The introductory chapter of my Ph.D. dissertation in the History of Art and Architecture (Leiden ... more The introductory chapter of my Ph.D. dissertation in the History of Art and Architecture (Leiden University & University of Ghent, 2014)
Co-authored articles by Eelco Nagelsmit
Journal of Early Modern Christianity, special issue on 'SOLITUDES: Withdrawal and Engagement in t... more Journal of Early Modern Christianity, special issue on 'SOLITUDES: Withdrawal and Engagement in the Long Seventeenth Century'
The Cistercian monastery La Trappe, Mme de Maintenon’s school for girls at St Cyr, the schools at... more The Cistercian monastery La Trappe, Mme de Maintenon’s school for girls at St Cyr, the schools at A. H. Francke’s foundations at Halle and the community established within these foundations bring to the fore the dynamic between withdrawal and engagement and the medial expressions of this dynamic. But each case demonstrates a particular employment of architecture, texts, music and images in the service of withdrawal and engagement respectively. At La Trappe the liturgical life and the furnishing of the abbey church made manifest the appropriation of desert asceticism as well as the Cistercian origin. Meanwhile the ethos of isolation and devotional self-surrender was conveyed beyond the walls by means of treatises, letters, images and the reception of visitors. At St Cyr noble girls were taught to renounce the world. This aim went hand in hand with the disciplinary and educational profile of the school and the royal founders’ ambition of to educate the wives and mothers of French noble households. Three paintings produced for the royal institution embody this aspiration in a particularly illuminating way. In the two cases related to Halle, the juxtaposition of theological texts and concepts such as Gelassenheit, musico-poetical culture as well as material and visual expressions of the Pietist reform movement and the employment of the eagle motif contributes to a multi-faceted understanding of the dynamic between withdrawal and engagement and the relation between the withdrawn locus and the society in which it was set.
The Cistercian monastery La Trappe, Mme de Maintenon’s school for girls at St Cyr, the schools at... more The Cistercian monastery La Trappe, Mme de Maintenon’s school for girls at St Cyr, the schools at A. H. Francke’s foundations at Halle and the community established within these foundations bring to the fore the dynamic between with- drawal and engagement and the medial expressions of this dynamic. But each case demonstrates a particular employment of architecture, texts, music and images in the service of withdrawal and engagement respectively. At La Trappe the liturgical life and the furnishing of the abbey church made manifest the appropriation of desert asceticism as well as the Cistercian origin. Meanwhile the ethos of isolation and devotional self-surrender was conveyed beyond the walls by means of treatises, letters, images and the reception of visitors. At St Cyr noble girls were taught to renounce the world. This aim went hand in hand with the disciplinary and educa- tional profile of the school and the royal founders’ ambition of to educate the wives and mothers of French noble households. Three paintings produced for the royal institution embody this aspiration in a particularly illuminating way. In the two cases related to Halle, the juxtaposition of theological texts and concepts such as Gelassenheit, musico-poetical culture as well as material and visual expressions of the Pietist reform movement and the employment of the eagle motif contributes to a multi-faceted understanding of the dynamic between withdrawal and engagement and the relation between the withdrawn locus and the society in which it was set.
Book Reviews by Eelco Nagelsmit
Virtus: Journal of Nobility Studies, 28, 2021
Review of: Ines Elsner, Das Huldigungssilber der Welfen des Neuen Hauses Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1... more Review of: Ines Elsner, Das Huldigungssilber der Welfen des Neuen Hauses Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1520-1706): Geschenkkultur und symbolische Interaktion zwischen Fürst und Untertanen (Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 2019)
History of Humanities, 2019
and his creation of 1852, the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg. The ultimate collapse of ... more and his creation of 1852, the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg. The ultimate collapse of Aufseß's original project marked several failures: that of the associations' movement, that of the museum as a research institution, that of cultural history as a university-based approach, that of the antiquarian tradition in the writing of history.
HNA Review of Books, 2018
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Videos by Eelco Nagelsmit
Performance of the manuscript score (Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv Wolfenbüttel) on 13 November 2021 during the annual Van Gelder lecture at Teylers Museum, Haarlem.
Performers: Sofia Pedro (soprano), Saartje Schrage (viola da gamba), David Mackor (theorbo), led by Fernando Aguado.
Articles by Eelco Nagelsmit
Book chapters by Eelco Nagelsmit
Co-authored articles by Eelco Nagelsmit
Book Reviews by Eelco Nagelsmit
Performance of the manuscript score (Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv Wolfenbüttel) on 13 November 2021 during the annual Van Gelder lecture at Teylers Museum, Haarlem.
Performers: Sofia Pedro (soprano), Saartje Schrage (viola da gamba), David Mackor (theorbo), led by Fernando Aguado.