- Tytuł:
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Historic representations of the planets: The Warsaw parade of the planets pageant as described by Martin Gruneweg
„Jak to się zwykło przedstawiać planety”? Warszawski pochód planet w zapiskach Martina Grunewega – rekonesans - Autorzy:
- Starownik, Agata
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/2087791.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2020
- Wydawca:
- Polska Akademia Nauk. Czytelnia Czasopism PAN
- Tematy:
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Polish culture in the late 16th century
urban and court pageants in Early Modern Europe
carnival parades
planets
the Zodiac
Warsaw
Martin Gruneweg (1562–c. 1618)
Gruneweg
planety
widowisko
Warszawa
Nauki Humanistyczne i Społeczne - Opis:
- In his voluminous memoirs compiled in the early 17th century the Dominican Martin Gruneweg describes a pageant named the Parade of the Planets that took place in Warsaw on 15 February 1580. Central to its stage design was the iconography of the seven planets, each of them represented by its Zodiac sign and its affiliated House. However, no less important for the spectacle was the appearance of numerous characters and stage props from the carnival tradition, e.g. richly dressed men from the Orient, Bacchus, a procession of floats. The Parade of the Planets was a festivity which brought together the court and the townsfolk; it was probably organized by both court and town. More generally, it could be described as an urban carnival parade mimicking some features of the Renaissance Trionfo. The knowledge of celestial phenomena presented in this spectacle was probably adjusted to the needs of a wide audience of the ‘middling sort of people’, whose belief in the geocentric model of the cosmos was still intact. It seems that the Parade of the Planets contained hardly any profound insights or hermetic clues. Gruneweg, though, does find it susceptible to an allegorical interpretation which reveals the spectacle's embedding in Christian spirituality and middle-class virtues. He is pleased with the colourful spectacle, but warns of taking too much pleasure in this kind of entertainment.
- Źródło:
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Ruch Literacki; 2020, 3; 295-311
0035-9602 - Pojawia się w:
- Ruch Literacki
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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