i Sebastiani - Sixteenth Century Web Images
 

Images

These are mostly 16th century drawings of commedia et. al. being performed found on the web in various places. They are included for the sake of studying costume, hair style, props, posture, movement, music, dance, and other aspects of high-class Sixteenth Century commedia performances. Naturally these are not photographs, and should be judged as conveying an impression, not a measurable fact.

 
nice modern drawing as furniture from: Mantova Capitale Europa della Spettacolo
Mantova, Palazzo Berla, "Scena di cucinatura della selvaggina" from Mantova...
Mantova, Palazzo Berla, "Scena di danza" from Mantova... , drawings from about 1580
Antonio Ponzano Decorazione in fregio al soffitto Castello di Trausnitz (Baviera), drawings about 1591 from Mantova...
Ambrogio Brambilla Incisione presente nel Recueil Fossard Copenhagen from Mantova...
Grabado del siglo XVI, comprendido en el Recueil Fossard (Museo Nacional de Estocolmo) from Parnaseo...
Richard Tarleton (c. 1590). Manuscrito de John Scottowe (British Museum. Arleian Ms. 3885, f. 19).
Il Capitano. En cristal veneciano de Murano. Segunda mitad del siglo XVI. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Viena) [Note by Jay Cross 27-Sep-2002, this piece was called 18th century on another site]
Tres máscaras de la Commedia dell'arte., en cuero, probablemente para Zanni. (Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, París)
Retrato de Giovanni Gabrieli, llamado, il Sivelli, por Agostino Carracci (1557-1602)
Retrato de Adriano Valerini ( de A. Valerini, Afrodite,Verona, 1578)
Retrato de Isabella Andreini (De I. Andreini, La Mirtilla, Verona, 1578)
Las dos caras de la moneda acuñada en Lyon en honor de Isabella Andreini (París, Biblioteca Nacional)
Frontispicio de La Supplica, con el retrato de Nicolò Barbieri con la máscara

click image for a much larger version of Arlecchino and Zany Cornetto from Recueil Fossard
This image of Scapino wooing a woman is from the featherbook 1618 [therefore post-16th Century]. The image is made of feathers.

See the Recueil Fossard images on this Lazzi Site, in particular: see introduction [hair-washing], both toothache images, the left image of illness, the right image of enema, the right image of agility, the right image of bamboozling, the left image of violence, and both images of disguise.
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An entertainer on a trestle stage, from Mika Tuomola's paper on Virtual Worlds and Commedia.
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Zany pushing Pantalone in the Recueil Fossard, from Mika Tuomola's paper on Virtual Worlds and Commedia.
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Pantalone dances with Francesquina in the Recueil Fossard, from Mika Tuomola's paper on Virtual Worlds and Commedia.
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Arlecchino, Johnny Cornetto, and Pantalone singing a song in the Recueil Fossard, from Mika Tuomola's paper on Virtual Worlds and Commedia.
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A crazy moment at the Bagpipe Inn, from Mika Tuomola's paper on Virtual Worlds and Commedia.
Sixteenth Century image of "The Serenade of Pantalone" from a French Theatre chronology site