List of figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: The machine in the theatre
1. Changing the scenes Intermezzo: Moving pictures
2. Theatres 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
Selct bibliography
Index
Philip Steadman is Emeritus Professor of Urban and Built Form Studies at UCL. He trained as an architect, and has taught at Cambridge University and the Open University. He has published several books on geometry in architecture, of which the most recent is Why Are Most Buildings Rectangular? (2018). In 2001 he published Vermeer’s Camera, on the Dutch painter’s use of the camera obscura.
"Uniquely important... should be useful in challenging modern
theatrical designers and engineers who are stalled in their
creativity... [and] scholars of Renaissance drama..."
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