Sylva Dobalová – Ivan Muchka – Sarah Lynch (eds.)
The essays gathered in this collection were presented as papers at the colloquium "Looking for Leisure. Court Residences and their Satellites, 1400–1700", which took place on 5–7 June 2014 in Prague. It was organized by the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Department of Art History of the Masaryk University in Brno with financial and organizational support of Palatium ESF programme (www.courtresidences.eu). The aim of this conference was to draw attention to small buildings, used in the time of leisure – mostly called palazotto, casino or Lusthaus – which were parts of European residential complexes. Essays examine questions of terminology and theory, which mirrors a variety of needs and occasions, which palazotto fulfills, as a complexity of its architectural semantic and socio-historical functions. The collection consists of four sections: I. From Solitude and Buen Retiro to Mon-plaisir and Sans-souci. Exploring the Theory of the Architecture of Leisure within the Palace; II. Tradition and Modernity. Defining the Palazzotto as a Spatial and Functional Type from the Late Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period; III. Decorating the Architecture of Leisure. Interpreting the Satellite’s Decor between Politics and Nature; IV. The Palazzotto in Context. Exploring the Role of the Satellite in the Grand Design of the Residence and its Gardens. Authors: Marilyn Brown, Ulla Kjaer, Poul Grinder-Hansen, Antonio Russo, Martina Frank, Sarah Lynch, Wolfgang Lippmann, Dirk Jacob Jansen, Mary-Claude Canova-Green, Daria Churkina, Michele Danieli, Markus Jeitler, Sylva Dobalová, Jan Ivanega, Jaroslava Hausenblasová, Ondřej Jakubec, Martin Mádl, Ivan Muchka.
Palatium e-publications, Volume 4, Artefactum: Praha 2015, ISBN 978-80-86890-71 (pdf)
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