Disegno della Prima Machina rappresentante i Tempij di Apollo, e di Diana: Incendiata per commando di Sua Eccellenza il Sign[or] Don Lorenzo Colonn Gran Contestabile del Regno di Napoli ... nella Vigilia de Gloriosi SS. Apostoli Pietro, e Paolo l'Anno 1763

Posi, Paolo, Palazzi, Giuseppe, Vasi, Giuseppe, Palazzi, Giuseppe [Ill.], Vasi, Giuseppe [Bearb.] · 1763 · 1 picture

This is a 1763 engraved plate from Rome by Paolo Posi and Giuseppe Vasi, with illustration by Giuseppe Palazzi, documenting a fireworks machine built for the Colonna family's feast of Saints Peter and Paul in Naples. The plate shows a large temporary theatrical facade with two domed pavilions flanking a central palace front, a bridge with lantern-hung balustrade, and a crowd below. A designer could take its rigid symmetry, dense architectural orders, and the way the stage structure is staged as a spectacle of fire and light.

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