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.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.