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Entryway Leading to a Courtyard and Two Levels of Galleries, a Design for the Stage

Giuseppe Galli Bibiena
1695-1757

Entryway Leading to a Courtyard and Two Levels of Galleries, a Design for the Stage

ca. 1740-1750
15 3/8 x 21 1/4 inches (391 x 539 mm)
Pen and brown ink, gray wash, and blue watercolor, incised, on paper.
2023.104

Gift of Jules Fisher.

Notes
Although the Bibienas were most famous for their innovative scena per angolo (scene viewed at an angle) stage designs, they also continued to design sets with a central vanishing point, like that used here. An illuminated atrium with densely colonnaded galleries was a motif favored by Giuseppe Bibiena.
Associated names
Fisher, Jules, former owner.
Bibliography
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY, "Architecture, Theater, and Fantasy: Bibena Drawings from the Jules Fisher Collection", 2021. Exh. cat., no. 13, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department