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Renaissance Fun / Philip Steadman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Steadman, Philip, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stage machinery.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xix, 397 pages)
- Other Title:
- Renaissance Fun
- Place of Publication:
- London, England : UCL Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- Renaissance Fun explores the technology of Renaissance entertainments in stage machinery and theatrical special effects; in gardens and fountains; and in the automata and self-playing musical instruments that were installed in garden grottoes.
- Contents:
- The machine in the theatre. Changing the scenes
- Intermezzo: Moving pictures
- A theatre of machines
- Intermezzo: Artificial weather
- The automata of Hero of Alexandria
- The machine in the garden. Artificial creatures
- Intermezzo: Talking heads
- Water in the air
- Intermezzo: Surprise soakings
- Artificial music
- A garden and an opera. The 'garden of marvels' at Pratolino
- Mercury and Mars in Parma, 1628
- Reprise: Hero as unlikely hero.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
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