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Steadman, Philip, 1942- author.

Title Renaissance Fun : The machines behind the scenes.

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London : UCL Press, 2021.

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Description	1 online resource (450 pages)
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Note	Description based upon print version of record.
Contents	Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I The machine in the theatre -- 1. Changing the scenes -- Intermezzo: Moving pictures -- 2. A theatre of machines -- Intermezzo: Artificial weather -- 3. The automata of Hero of Alexandria -- Part II The machine in the garden -- 4. Artificial creatures -- Intermezzo: Talking heads -- 5. Water in the air -- Intermezzo: Surprise soakings -- 6. Artificial music -- Part III A garden and an opera -- 7. The 'garden of marvels' at Pratolino -- 8. Mercury and Mars in Parma, 1628
	Reprise: Hero as unlikely hero -- Select bibliography -- Index
Summary	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.
Subject	Stage machinery -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.
	Stage machinery -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.
	Theaters -- Europe -- Special effects -- History -- 16th century.
	Theaters -- Europe -- Special effects -- History -- 17th century.
	Theaters -- Europe -- Sound effects -- History -- 16th century.
	Theaters -- Europe -- Sound effects -- History -- 17th century.
	Renaissance.
	ART / History / Renaissance.
Other Form:	Print version: Steadman, Philip Renaissance Fun London : UCL Press,c2021 9781787359178
ISBN	9781787359154 (electronic book)
	1787359158 (electronic book)

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