On stage! Costume designs from the Edmond de Rothschild Collection

October 27, 2021 January 31, 2022 Exhibition has ended

This exhibition brings together a selection of some one hundred sheets from one of the most important collections of drawings of show clothes, that of the volumes of Costumes for Festivals, Ballets and Theater in the Time of Louis XIV donated by Baron Edmond de Rothschild (1845-1934) to the Louvre Museum. Their richness reveals the diversity of invention of the artists who dressed the entertainments staged at the Court of France and Lorraine from the mid-sixteenth century to the dawn of the eighteenth ...
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On stage ! Costume designs from the Edmond de Rothschild Collection - Exhibition catalogue

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FRENCH LANGUAGE

The book highlights a variety of artists, from Primaticcio and his entourage, who produced a number of sheets for balls at the court of Catherine de Medici, to designers specialising in the spectacle, such as Jean Bérain and Henri Gissey. Through their testimonies, they bring back to life spectacles that are often unknown or forgotten by the public and highlight the refinement of this society that produced and consumed such entertainment. It is also a way of entering into the work of these designers, who composed both a technical design, intended to be woven and sewn, and an artistic design, in keeping with the splendour of the shows that were to be performed.

Exhibition at the musée du Louvre, Rotonde de Sully from 27 October 2021 to 31 January 2022.

French language
232 pages / 152 illustrations

Lienart / Louvre éditions

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