01661nam 2200361 n 450 991051220300332120230510155705.0(CKB)5590000000630807(NjHacI)995590000000630807(EXLCZ)99559000000063080720230510d2021 uu 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierRenaissance Fun /Philip SteadmanLondon, England :UCL Press,2021.1 online resource (xix, 397 pages)1-78735-919-0 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.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.Renaissance Fun Stage machineryStage machinery.792.025Steadman Philip3571NjHacINjHaclBOOK9910512203003321Renaissance fun2920624UNINA