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• 1 2019-04-14T17:50:18-07:00 More Festival Books for Charles VI 62 plain 2019-05-13T13:47:10-07:00 Below are examples of publications similar to the Relation de l'Inauguration Solemnelle... created for Charles' entry into Ghent in 1717.

  La joyeuse entrée de Charles VI in Bruxelles (1717)

  On October 11 1717, a week before he would be celebrated as Count of Flanders in Ghent, Charles VI was recognized as Duc de Brabant and Limburg in the nearby city of Brussles. The festival book commemorating the event contains etchings representing the main locations where the event took place. Engravers who worked on these representations were the same as those who created the illustrations of the Ghent event. (cfr. Lebeer 1958).
  
  
  
  
   

  
  Il festino della felicità (1720)

  The London treatise of August 2, 1718 assigned Sicily to Charles VI, but only in May 1720 were Spanish troops finally forced to leave the island. In August, the Duke of Monteleone was finally able to acclaim Charles VI ‘l’austriaco Splendore’, as the king of Sicily.
  
  

  
  Le simpatie della città di Messina (1720)

  This festival book printed in 1720 in Messina celebrates the coronation of Charles VI as king of Spain and Sicily. The ceremony occurred in the same year the book was printed. The book contains illustrations made by local artists, as well as the lyrics of a Serenata a quattro voci performed in Messina for Charles VI. The lyrics had been put to music by D. Francesco Tozzi, Maestro di Cappella di questa nobile, Fedelissima ed Esemplare Città di Messina.
  
  A digitized version of this festival book is also available from the Beinecke Library's Rare Book Collection at Yale University.
  
  
  
   
• 1 media/Bouquet_images_title_cropped.jpg 2019-05-13T01:49:58-07:00 Images and Image makers 17 image_header 2019-05-13T15:38:28-07:00 Many famous artists are known to have contributed, over and above their main artistic activities, to the designing of provisional structures such as theatre built for important ceremonies, and to producing the illustrations for festival books. Among them are Pierfrancesco Giambullari, Antonio and Lorenzo Landi, Palladio, Ronsard, Rubens, and Vasari.
  
  The artists involved in the illustrations of the Festival Book printed to celebrate the entry of Charles VI into Ghent are local, though their number included experienced illustrators or engravers.
  
  In particular, Jacobus Harrewijn, Jean-Baptiste van Volsom and Jean-Baptiste Berterham also contributed to the making of the festival book printed in Bruxelles to commemorate the royal entry that happened there the week before. While the two festival books represented similar scenes such as the theater, the fireworks and the triumphal arch, nevertheless the particular artists chose to depict different scenes in the different books (different artists represented for example the theater in the two different books), thus showing some range and variability in their interest).
  
  
  
  
  Also interesting is that the representation of the same item changes according to time and place. For example, illustrations of the theater in Bruxelles (1717), in Messina (1720) and in Ghent (1744)