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Costume Design: Poetry for a Ballet

ca. 1720

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

Vertical rectangle. A woman is shown, standing, with a trumpet in her right hand, the left hand holds the neck of a violin-cello. Her coat is decorated with rows of stars. Written on top, in pencil: "La siga Cecilia," in the upper left corner: "Nobilta/o Poesia," in the upper part of the bodice, and in the left sleeve: "Biancho," in the lwoer part of the bodeice, and in the skirt: "Turchino." Written above, in ink (over pencil): "La poesia vestita di azurro celeste sopra ivi saranno/molte stelle coronate di alloro."

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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