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Author Steadman, Philip, 1942- author.

Title Renaissance fun : the machines behind the scenes / Philip Steadman.

Publication Info. London : UCL Press, 2021.
©2021

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 397 pages) : illustrations
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary 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.
Note Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 3, 2021).
Subject Stage machinery -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.
Stage machinery -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.
Theaters -- Europe -- Special effects -- History -- 16th century.
Theaters -- Europe -- Special effects -- History -- 17th century.
Theaters -- Europe -- Sound effects -- History -- 16th century.
Theaters -- Europe -- Sound effects -- History -- 17th century.
Renaissance.
Machines de théâtre -- Europe -- Histoire -- 16e siècle.
Machines de théâtre -- Europe -- Histoire -- 17e siècle.
Théâtres -- Europe -- Effets spéciaux -- Histoire -- 16e siècle.
Théâtres -- Europe -- Effets spéciaux -- Histoire -- 17e siècle.
Théâtres -- Europe -- Effets sonores -- Histoire -- 16e siècle.
Théâtres -- Europe -- Effets sonores -- Histoire -- 17e siècle.
Renaissance.
Renaissance.
ART -- History -- Renaissance.
Renaissance
Stage machinery
Theaters -- Sound effects
Theaters -- Special effects
Europe https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxCxPbbk4CPJDQJb4r6rq
Chronological Term 1500-1699
Genre/Form History
Other Form: Print version: Steadman, Philip, 1942- Renaissance fun. London : UCL Press, 2021 9781787359161 9781787359178
ISBN 9781787359185 (electronic bk.)
1787359182 (electronic bk.)
9781787359154 (electronic bk.)
1787359158 (electronic bk.)
9781787359192 (Kindle ebook)
1787359190
9781787359161
1787359166
9781787359178
1787359174
Standard No. AU@ 000068968434
AU@ 000070045161
AU@ 000070440516
UKMGB 020098404

 
    
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