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Renaissance fun : the machines behind the scenes /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Steadman, Philip, 1942- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : UCL Press, 2021.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.