Final Report Summary - PARIS-CRACOW-VENICE (Paris-Cracow-Venice. The European Festivals for Henri de Valois, King of Poland, 1573–74)
The purpose of this two year project was to provide the first multidisciplinary monograph and comparative analysis of the festivals staged for Henri de Valois, as King of Poland, in France, Poland and Italy before his accession to the French throne as Henri III (1573-74).
During the first year of the Intra-European Fellowship at the Warburg Institute Dr Kociszewska realised all goals presented in Annex I of the project.
1. Defended her doctoral dissertation. According to plan she expanded and rewrote part of the dissertation as a book proposal.
2. Submitted an article “The Valois Tapestries or The Valois-Lorraine Tapestries?” (ca. 20 000 words + 35 illustrations) to the journal Artibus and Historiae (accepted for publication in 2014 or 2015). Thanks to research in the Warburg Institute Library and Photographic Collection she developed new ideas for the article and the final text is much more longer than expected.
3. Prepared a short article Roi de Pologne, c’est-à-dire qui? L’imagerie française de Henri de Valois au temps de l’élection de 1573 (ca. 7000 words) in French on the imagery of Henri de Valois as king of Poland and on French-Polish intellectual relationships at the time of his reign in Cracow for the conference and book France-Pologne : Contacts, échanges culturels, représentations (fin XVIe-début XIXe siècle), ed. J. Dumanowski and M. Figeac (the book will be submitted to one of the main Parisian publishers).
4. Gathered materials for a new article on the ballet de cour and its female audience at the court of Catherine de Médicis in 1580s.
5. Gathered much new material for the festivals in Paris, Cracow and Venice in 1573–1574. After recent refurbishment of the National Library in Warsaw she was able to access many previously unknown prints and books from 1573. A list of documents is partly published on the project website:
https://pariscracowvenice.wordpress.com/
6. Edited all sources for the festivals in Paris, parts of two crucial texts for the festivals in Venice: Tragedia by Claudio Cornelio Fragipane and Attioni d’Arrigo Terzo by Tomaso Porcacchi. While working on Italian texts she benefited from the assistance and advice of Warburg Institute staff. Thanks to this training Dr Kociszewska’s Italian improved and she was offered a short-term fellowship at the Villa Medici in Rome.
7. Wrote three short texts about her research for Polona, a popular blog of the National Library in Warsaw (http://blog.polona.pl/kategoria/sztuka). These articles were published successively in 2014.
During the second year of the Intra-European Fellowship at the Warburg Institute Dr Kociszewska realised all goals presented in Annex I of the project.
1. Book: In accordance with the working plan presented in Annex I, the second year of the fellowship was devoted to analysing the primary sources and writing. Dr Kociszewska was working mainly on a book manuscript. Two of three planned chapters are written and she hopes to submit the proposal in Spring 2015. Dr Kociszewsla was approached by the editors of the Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe series (University of Rochester Press) and she will submit the manuscript there or to the Librairie Droz.
2. Research trips: During the second year Dr Kociszewska made several research trips abroad (France, Poland, Italy and Russia). She gathered additional materials from libraries, archives and museums: from Bibliothèque nationale de France and musée du Louvre in Paris; château de Blois; chateau de Versailles; Biblioteka Narodowa and Archiwum Akt Dawnych in Warsaw; Biblioteka Jagiellońska in Kraków; Palazzo Pitti – Museo degli Argenti, Archivio di Stato, Biblioteca nazionale in Florence; Castello Estense in Ferrara; Hermitage and National Library of Russia in Sankt-Petersburg. New sources for the festivals for Henri de Valois were added to the website http://pariscracowvenice.wordpress.com
3. Articles: Dr Kociszewska wrote articles, which were submitted before the end of 2014:the first on women in ballet de cour at the court of Catherine de Médicis (Past and Present); the second on Sugar sculptures for Henri III of France in Venice 1574 (West 86th: Journal of Decorative Arts).
In the National Library of Russia she discovered two previously unknown illuminated manuscripts offered to Henri de Valois as king of Poland. Part of the research on the Italian manuscript possibly commissioned by Ferdinando de’ Medici is completed and as soon as Dr Kociszweska is able to obtain the reproductions from Russia, she will start preparing the article for submission.
She is also preparing an article on festivals for Henri de Valois for submission to History Today, dedicated to the wider public.
4. Conference and seminar papers: In October 2014 Dr Kociszewska organised at the Warburg Institute a one-day colloquium, French Renaissance Court Culture. The Legacy of Frances Yates (Programme can be found on the website:
http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/colloquia-2014-15/french-renaissance-court-culture/
She presented three papers:
- “The Visual Arts and Music in French Ballet de Cour”, Courtauld Institute of Art, The Visual Arts and Music in Renaissance Europe c. 1400-1650 Symposium, 22 January 2014
- “Art and Sweets: The Sugar Sculptures for the Valois Monarch in Paris and Venice, Warburg Institute, History of Art Seminar, 26 June 2014
- “Ballet des penitents at the court of Catherine de’ Medici”, Warburg Institute, French Renaissance Court Culture. The Legacy of Frances Yates colloquium, 24 October 2014
During her fellowship she also gathered material for two forthcoming papers on the mobility of objects between courts in Paris and in Central Europe. These papers were presented at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting in Berlin in March 2015 (panel “Early Modern Collections and the Trade in ‘Collectibles’”) and the “Splendid Encounters III” conference at the European University Institute in Florence in April 2015.
5. Next appointment: Thanks to the training that Dr Kociszewska received during her Marie Curie Fellowship she managed to secure a postdoctoral position at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Oxford. She will be a member of the HERA research project Marrying Cultures: The Queens Consort and European Identities 1500-1800, for which she will be working on culture at the court of Marie-Louise Gonzague, Queen of Poland in Paris and Warsaw. Dr Kociszewska was also also awarded a non-stipendiary Junior Research Fellowship in History of Art at St Catherine’s College, Oxford.
During the first year of the Intra-European Fellowship at the Warburg Institute Dr Kociszewska realised all goals presented in Annex I of the project.
1. Defended her doctoral dissertation. According to plan she expanded and rewrote part of the dissertation as a book proposal.
2. Submitted an article “The Valois Tapestries or The Valois-Lorraine Tapestries?” (ca. 20 000 words + 35 illustrations) to the journal Artibus and Historiae (accepted for publication in 2014 or 2015). Thanks to research in the Warburg Institute Library and Photographic Collection she developed new ideas for the article and the final text is much more longer than expected.
3. Prepared a short article Roi de Pologne, c’est-à-dire qui? L’imagerie française de Henri de Valois au temps de l’élection de 1573 (ca. 7000 words) in French on the imagery of Henri de Valois as king of Poland and on French-Polish intellectual relationships at the time of his reign in Cracow for the conference and book France-Pologne : Contacts, échanges culturels, représentations (fin XVIe-début XIXe siècle), ed. J. Dumanowski and M. Figeac (the book will be submitted to one of the main Parisian publishers).
4. Gathered materials for a new article on the ballet de cour and its female audience at the court of Catherine de Médicis in 1580s.
5. Gathered much new material for the festivals in Paris, Cracow and Venice in 1573–1574. After recent refurbishment of the National Library in Warsaw she was able to access many previously unknown prints and books from 1573. A list of documents is partly published on the project website:
https://pariscracowvenice.wordpress.com/
6. Edited all sources for the festivals in Paris, parts of two crucial texts for the festivals in Venice: Tragedia by Claudio Cornelio Fragipane and Attioni d’Arrigo Terzo by Tomaso Porcacchi. While working on Italian texts she benefited from the assistance and advice of Warburg Institute staff. Thanks to this training Dr Kociszewska’s Italian improved and she was offered a short-term fellowship at the Villa Medici in Rome.
7. Wrote three short texts about her research for Polona, a popular blog of the National Library in Warsaw (http://blog.polona.pl/kategoria/sztuka). These articles were published successively in 2014.
During the second year of the Intra-European Fellowship at the Warburg Institute Dr Kociszewska realised all goals presented in Annex I of the project.
1. Book: In accordance with the working plan presented in Annex I, the second year of the fellowship was devoted to analysing the primary sources and writing. Dr Kociszewska was working mainly on a book manuscript. Two of three planned chapters are written and she hopes to submit the proposal in Spring 2015. Dr Kociszewsla was approached by the editors of the Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe series (University of Rochester Press) and she will submit the manuscript there or to the Librairie Droz.
2. Research trips: During the second year Dr Kociszewska made several research trips abroad (France, Poland, Italy and Russia). She gathered additional materials from libraries, archives and museums: from Bibliothèque nationale de France and musée du Louvre in Paris; château de Blois; chateau de Versailles; Biblioteka Narodowa and Archiwum Akt Dawnych in Warsaw; Biblioteka Jagiellońska in Kraków; Palazzo Pitti – Museo degli Argenti, Archivio di Stato, Biblioteca nazionale in Florence; Castello Estense in Ferrara; Hermitage and National Library of Russia in Sankt-Petersburg. New sources for the festivals for Henri de Valois were added to the website http://pariscracowvenice.wordpress.com
3. Articles: Dr Kociszewska wrote articles, which were submitted before the end of 2014:the first on women in ballet de cour at the court of Catherine de Médicis (Past and Present); the second on Sugar sculptures for Henri III of France in Venice 1574 (West 86th: Journal of Decorative Arts).
In the National Library of Russia she discovered two previously unknown illuminated manuscripts offered to Henri de Valois as king of Poland. Part of the research on the Italian manuscript possibly commissioned by Ferdinando de’ Medici is completed and as soon as Dr Kociszweska is able to obtain the reproductions from Russia, she will start preparing the article for submission.
She is also preparing an article on festivals for Henri de Valois for submission to History Today, dedicated to the wider public.
4. Conference and seminar papers: In October 2014 Dr Kociszewska organised at the Warburg Institute a one-day colloquium, French Renaissance Court Culture. The Legacy of Frances Yates (Programme can be found on the website:
http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/colloquia-2014-15/french-renaissance-court-culture/
She presented three papers:
- “The Visual Arts and Music in French Ballet de Cour”, Courtauld Institute of Art, The Visual Arts and Music in Renaissance Europe c. 1400-1650 Symposium, 22 January 2014
- “Art and Sweets: The Sugar Sculptures for the Valois Monarch in Paris and Venice, Warburg Institute, History of Art Seminar, 26 June 2014
- “Ballet des penitents at the court of Catherine de’ Medici”, Warburg Institute, French Renaissance Court Culture. The Legacy of Frances Yates colloquium, 24 October 2014
During her fellowship she also gathered material for two forthcoming papers on the mobility of objects between courts in Paris and in Central Europe. These papers were presented at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting in Berlin in March 2015 (panel “Early Modern Collections and the Trade in ‘Collectibles’”) and the “Splendid Encounters III” conference at the European University Institute in Florence in April 2015.
5. Next appointment: Thanks to the training that Dr Kociszewska received during her Marie Curie Fellowship she managed to secure a postdoctoral position at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Oxford. She will be a member of the HERA research project Marrying Cultures: The Queens Consort and European Identities 1500-1800, for which she will be working on culture at the court of Marie-Louise Gonzague, Queen of Poland in Paris and Warsaw. Dr Kociszewska was also also awarded a non-stipendiary Junior Research Fellowship in History of Art at St Catherine’s College, Oxford.