Mateusz Kapustka – Programma Caeli

Srdečně zveme na další přednášku z cyklu Collegium historiae artium, kterou přednese Mateusz Kapustka (University of Zurich) na téma Programma Caeli. Telescopic Imagery and Dynastic Representation in the Vienna University Thesis Assertiones Philosophicae of 1677.

The lecture offers an analysis of the illustrated university thesis Assertiones philosophicae presented by Nicolaus Antonius Lippay de Zombor at the University of Vienna on 8 August 1677, designed by Matthias Rauchmüller and executed by Bartholomäus Kilian in Augsburg. The engraving shows the allegorical presentation of the portrait of Eleonore Magdalena Theresia von Pfalz-Neuburg as the future bride to Emperor Leopold I Habsburg, a crucial element of dynastic matrimonial policy. At the same time, however, the highly complex theatrical scenario of the print embodies the Baroque poetics of remote seeing and scientific evidence, as this fictitious encounter is accompanied by diverse scenes of astronomical computation, telescopic image-making, and mirror reflection performed by convened scholars who thus transform the light of the heavenly host. In the paper, this conjunction will be related to the very embedding of the Baroque science of astronomy in the speculative realm of divine providence and examined with regard to the sacred-political preconditions of empirical sciences in the early modern period.

Přednáška se uskuteční v zasedací místnosti (sál 117) Ústavu dějin umění AV ČR.