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Giacomo Torelli (1 September 1608 – 17 June 1678) was an Italian stage designer, scenery painter, engineer, and architect. [1] His work in stage design, particularly his designs of machinery for creating spectacular scenery changes and other special effects, was extensively engraved and hence survives as the most complete record of mid-seventeenth-century set design.
The Restoration spectacular was a type of theatre production of the late 17th-century Restoration period, defined by the amount of money, time, sets, and performers it required to be produced. Productions attracted audiences with elaborate action, acrobatics, dance, costume, scenery , illusionistic painting , trapdoors , and fireworks .
Use of periaktos in 17th century theater. In: Architectura recreationis, by J. Furttenbach A periaktos (plural form periaktoi, from a Greek word meaning revolving) is a device used for displaying and rapidly changing theatre scenes.
Refinement meets burlesque in Restoration comedy. In this scene from George Etherege's Love in a Tub, musicians and well-bred ladies surround a man who is wearing a tub because he has lost his trousers. Restoration comedy is English comedy written and performed in the Restoration period of 1660–1710. Comedy of manners is used as a synonym for ...
17th-century theatre managers (28 P) T. Theatres completed in the 17th century (31 C) Pages in category "17th-century theatre" The following 18 pages are in this ...
Allegory of the Arts. Hendrick Govaerts or Hendrik Govaerts (baptised 28 February 1669 - 10 February 1720) was a Flemish painter. He is known for his genre scenes of interior scenes, elegant merry companies, theatre scenes, allegories and history paintings.
The United Company began performances in November of that year. The King's Company theatre, the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, was used mainly for plays, while the Duke's Dorset Garden theatre was devoted to operas and spectaculars. John Downes was the prompter of the Duke's Company from 1662 to 1706.
Jonson's play uses this fair as the setting for an unusually detailed and diverse panorama of early seventeenth-century London life. The one day of fair life represented in the play allows Jonson ample opportunity to not just conduct his plot, but also to depict the vivid life of the fair, from pickpockets and bullies to justices and slumming ...