The Renaissance Artist as Plagiarist
1981; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 48; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/2872909
ISSN1080-6547
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Art and Culture Studies
ResumoIn 1638 Inigo Jones and Sir William Davenant produced two masques for the English court. The first, Britannia Triumphans, danced by the king in January, celebrated, a little prematurely, the triumph of the royal scheme of Ship Money: the famous trial was about to reach its conclusion, with a narrow victory in the Star Chamber for the crown. Three weeks later, at Shrovetide, the queen danced in Luminalia, Jones's most elaborate scenic spectacle up to that time. The complexity of the engineering was the more impressive, Jones tells us, because it had to be devised very quickly:
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