Scene design for Square in Aleppo, Act II, in Il Solimano

Object detail

Media/Materials

Etching with engraving

Measurements

plate, 8 x 11in (20.3 x 27.9cm)

Credit line

Gift of The Tobin Endowment

Accession number

TL2004.20.2

Object type

Prints

Department

Theatre Arts

Location

Not on view

Theatre production

Opera by Prospero Bonarelli.

Further information

Giulio Parigi's design for Il Solimano, commissioned by Grand Duke Cosimo II de Medici, employs one-point perspective. In Parigi's stage setting, which did not change from act to act, the vanishing lines of Renaissance-style buildings flanking the square lead the eye to an open portico at the exact center of the stage picture.

Maker

Jacques Callot (French, b.1592, d.1635)

Giulio Parigi (Italian, b.1571, d.1635)

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Italian European scene designs design Theatre Arts tragedies plays genres cityscapes/street scenes Subject Types groups People columns/arches Structures towers monochrome Color

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