Renaissance Fun /

Renaissance Fun / / Philip Steadman.

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.

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Steadman, Philip,
Place / Publishing House:London, England : : UCL Press,, 2021.
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xix, 397 pages)
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Table of 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.

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