Design for Third Day: Theatre erected in the middle of the grand basin representing the Island of Alcine, where her enchanted palace appears rising from a small rock in which a ballet of several entrees was danced from Les Plaisirs de l'Ile Enchantée (Pleasures of the Enchanted Island)

Maker and role
Artist: Israel Sylvestre, French, 1621-1691
After: Carlo Vigarani, Italian, 1622-1713
 Year
1664

Object detail

Media/Materials
Engraving
Measurements
10 3/4 x 16 5/8in (27.3 x 42.2cm)
Credit line
Gift of The Tobin Endowment
Accession number
TL2004.28.8
Object type
Prints
Department
Theatre Arts
Location
Not on view
Further information
For the climax of Les Plaisirs de l'Ile Enchantée, Italian designer Carlo Vigarani created an outdoor stage setting consisting of a palace rising from a rocky island at the edge of a garden pool. Fireworks, which exploded upward like a cascading fountain, destroyed Alcine's palace and signaled that Roger had successfully broken free of the spell of her enchanted island and its illicit pleasures.
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