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ArgumentFrom the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, European monarchies saw a gradual centralisation of power. This was accompanied by the dissemination of political ideas that contributed to the making of a new image of the prince, which relied on visual instruments to assert and construct the prince&#8217;s sovereign power.Royal and princely residences were at the centre of this phenomenon. In these privileged spaces, the sovereign accommodated an expanding entourage, and received messengers and guests from other courts. Consequently, it was in these buildings that court society developed in the first place.It is therefore not surprising that these palaces played an important part in the self-representation of the sovereign and his court, be it by the arrangement of the spaces and their permanent and ephemeral decoration, or by the common and extraordinary rituals that took place here.In these spaces, designated state-rooms appeared to be vital for constructing an effective image of the monarchy. They were an essential, often architecturally separate part of the palatial structure. Their decors, particularly during ceremonies, reflected political interests and ambitions that were essential to the image of the prince. Outside such ceremonies, state-rooms frequently served as a meeting place of the court, or even as a point of interest to be seen and commented on by spectators and panegyrists.By placing a particular emphasis on the decor of those state-rooms, this workshop aims to increase our insights into the relations between the architecture, decoration, and rituals of monarchical power in state-rooms from the late middle ages to the beginning of the early modern period.ProgrammeWednesday, 15 MarchLISBON, Carmo Convent09:00 &#8211; 09:15 &#8211; arrival of the participants, inscription09:15 &#8211; 09:45 &#8211; welcome09:45 &#8211; 10:30 &#8211; Opening LectureAna Isabel Buescu (Lisbon): Int&#233;rieurs. Salles d&#8217;apparat et c&#233;r&#233;monies royales au Portugal au XVIe si&#232;cle &#8211; quelques notescoffee break11:00 &#8211; 12:30 &#8211; Early State-RoomsSabine Sommerer (Zurich, CH): The Eloquence of the King&#8217;s Chamber. Descriptions of Royal Palaces from the 10th-14th CenturyJulie Marquer (Lyon, F): Les salles d&#8217;apparat de l&#8217;Alcazar du roi Pierre Ier &#224; S&#233;ville (XIVe si&#232;cle)Solveig Bourocher (Tours, F): Les d&#233;cors int&#233;rieurs et ext&#233;rieurs de la grande salle du logis ducal de Loches au service du pouvoir de Louis Ier d&#8217;Anjou (1370-1378)12:30 &#8211; 14:30 &#8211; lunch &#38; guided tour at the Archeological Museum in the Carmo Convent14:30 &#8211; 16:00 &#8211; State-Rooms in Italian DuchiesMatteo Ferrari (Poitiers, F): Le prince et son image. L&#8217;ornementation picturale des r&#233;sidences seigneuriales de Gal&#233;as II et Barnab&#233; ViscontiFrancesca Tasso, Tosi Luca (Milan, I): Sala dei Moroni in the so called Cortile Ducale (Ducal Courtyard) in Castello SforzescoSilvia Marin Barutcieff, Ștefan Barutcieff (Bucharest, RO): From Sacred Art to the Art of Politics. Mural Paintings and the 15th Century Iconographic Discourse of St. George&#8217;s Castle in Mantuacoffee break16:30 &#8211; 18:00 &#8211; Between Republican and Princely D&#233;corLaura Cirri (Florence, I): The use of the imprese in the Medicean iconography of power: evolution and consolidation through the 15th and 16th centuriesAlessandro Savorelli (Florence, I): La Grande Salle de &#8220;Palazzo Vecchio&#8221; &#224; Florence: la repr&#233;sentation du pouvoir entre r&#233;publique et seigneurieDorit Malz (Florence, I): Jupiter and Neptune as Emperor Charles V and Andrea I Doria. Changing allusions at the Genovese court19:30 &#8211; dinnerThursday, 16 MarchSINTRA, Town Palace09:11 departure from Lisbon (Rossio station)10:30 &#8211; 10:45 &#8211; welcome at Sintra10:45 &#8211; 11:45 &#8211; guided tour at the Town Palacecoffee break12:00 &#8211; 13:00 &#8211; The Sala dos Bras&#245;es IMiguel Metelo de Seixas (Lisbon): La &#8216;sala dos bras&#245;es&#8217; de Sintra: approches et enjeux historiographiquesChristian de M&#233;rindol (Paris, F): A propos du Palais de Sintra, les priorit&#233;s directionnelles et autres r&#233;f&#233;rences13:00 &#8211; 14:30: d&#233;jeuner14:30 &#8211; 15:30 &#8211; La Sala dos Bras&#245;es IIPedro Flor (Lisbon): Decorating spaces: Artistic strategies of King Manuel I and the great hall of Sintra royal palaceLaurent Hablot (Paris, F): Des cerfs et des armoiries. Embl&#233;matique et symbolique du cerf &#233;cuyer dans la repr&#233;sentation du pouvoir &#224; la fin du Moyen Agecoffee break16:00 &#8211; 17:30 &#8211; Other state-rooms in PortugalHelder Carita (Lisbon): Les salles d&#8217;apparat au Palais des Vice-Rois &#224; GoaNuno Senos (Lisbon): The Great Hall of the Ducal Palace of Vila Vi&#231;osaMilton Parcheo (Coimbra): A king between gods and heroes: The iconographic program of the Palace of Ribeira throne room during the reform of D. Filipe I of Portugal17:30 &#8211; 19:00 visit of the Pena Castle19:30 dinner and return to LisbonFriday, 17 MarchLISBON, Carmo Convent09:00 &#8211; 10:00 &#8211; D&#233;cor and Ephemeral ArtMarie Koehn (Strasbourg, F / M&#252;nster, D): D&#233;cor de table et mise en sc&#232;ne du pouvoir princi&#232;re. Le mariage de Charles le T&#233;m&#233;raire (1468)Pierre Couhault (Paris, F): Un d&#233;cor d&#8217;or, de soie et de laine. &#192; propos du choix des tapisseries dans l&#8217;ornementation de la grande salle du palais de Bruxelles (XVe‐XVIe si&#232;cles)coffee break10:30 &#8211; 11:30 &#8211; Further perspectivesIsabel Monteiro (Lisbon): Music in Portuguese Renaissance Courts: Performers, Context and PlacesJames Hillson (Cambridge, UK): Inheriting St Stephen&#8217;s Chapel: A Palace Chapel as State-Room at Westminster, 1348-1450coffee break12:00 &#8211; 12:30 &#8211; conclusions and final discussionEndThe workshop is organised by Torsten Hiltmann (M&#252;nster), Miguel Metelo de Seixas (Lisbon), and Jo&#227;o Portugal (Lisbon) as part of the Portuguese-German research project &#8216;In the Service of the Crown: The Use of Heraldry in Royal Political Communication in Late Medieval Portugal&#8217;, funded by the VolkswagenFoundation. It is supported furthermore by the Pal&#225;cio Nacional de Sintra; the Associa&#231;&#227;o dos Arque&#243;logos Portugueses; the Instituto Portugu&#234;s de Her&#225;ldica.