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This section investigates methods used to realize transformations.
Contemporary set models, toy theater illustrations, and a selection
of engravings and posters illustrate the audiences' view point
while patents, architectural plans and technical instruction manuals
from 1760 to the present reveal designers' secrets
Acquatint engraving by Domenico
Ladrini of the interior of Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 1800, showing
an unidentified production
Gif of Lincoln Kirstein, Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Pelia e Milito (choreography: Salvatore
Taglioni)
Engraving by Alessandro Sanquirico of the production at Teatro
alla Scala, Milan, 1827
Milan: Antoni Bossie Editore, 1827
Cia Fornaroli Collection, Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Jacobo Fabris,(Instruction in Theatre Architecture)
and Mechanics, 1760
Instructions on rigging stage machinery, Plate V
Billy Rose Theatre Collection
The Fairie's Home
Lithograph by Currier & Ives, 1868, inspired by scenes in
extravaganzas produced at Niblo's Garden, New York
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Maria Medina Vigano depicted as Terpsichore
Stipple engraving
Wein: Herausgegeben von C. Pfeiffer and I. Firdlberg, 1794
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Psyche (opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully).
Engraving by Henri Berthet, after Louis Binet, of an unidentified
production, ca. 1785. Dance Special Acquisition Fund, Jerome Robbins
Dance Division
