Giacomo Torelli
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Giacomo Torelli was an Italian stage designer, scenery painter, engineer, and architect. His work in stage design, particularly his designs of machinery for creating spectacular scenery changes and ot
Portrait of Giacomo Torelli. Unknown author of the 17th century. Work exhibited at the civic museum of Fano
Set design for La finta pazza (Paris, 1645)
Torelli's set design for Act 5 of Pierre Corneille's Andromède as performed at the Petit-Bourbon in 1650
Design for a theater set created by Giacomo Torelli da Fano for the ballet 'Les Noces de Thétis', from 'Décorations et machines aprestées aux nopces de Tétis, Ballet Royal' 1654
Andromède
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Andromède is a French verse play in a prologue and five acts by Pierre Corneille, first performed on 1 February 1650 by the Troupe Royale de l'Hôtel de Bourgogne at the Théâtre Royal de Bourbon in Par
Title page (1651, 2nd edition)
Prologue: Melpomène, flying in the sky, and the Sun in his "luminously bright chariot"
Act 1: Vénus in her "glory"
Act 2: Aeole and eight Venti raise Andromède into the clouds amid thunder and lightning