ID: 700001343 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001343	Record Type: Movable Work

[Musical contest of the Muses and the Pierides] (engraving (print); Epifanio d'Alfiano (Italian monk and printmaker, active 1591...; Published: 1592; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 1575-194; 551920; (CMalG)1366-954; accession number: P910002** (FF. 203b))

Note: Bastiano de' Rossi, chief secretary of the Accademia della Crusca in Florence, described the interludes by Giovanni de' Bardi in Descrizione dell'apparato e degl'intermedi ... (In Firenze : Per Anton Padouani, M.D.LXXXIX [1589]); A related pen and ink wash drawing by Bernardo Buontalenti is preserved in: London, Victoria and Albert Museum, no. E.1187-1931; The print depicts the second intermezzo of the comedy La pellegrina performed in the Teatro mediceo degli Uffizi on the evening of May 2, 1589, as part of the festivities honoring the wedding of Ferdinand I de' Medici to Princess Christine of Lorraine; Issued three years after the festivities, it records the stage design by Bernardo Buontalenti for the second intermezzo enacting the musical contest between the Muses and the Pierides (cf. Ovid, Metamorphoses, V). The stage setting is composed of two architectural grottoes, a trellised arbor decorated with caryatids and a hilly landscape in the background. The Muses and Pierides are seated in grottoes, singing, reading a musical score, playing the flute or the cello. Apollo and the Hamadryads, judges of the contest, sit on a rocky mount. Around the mount wander birds or magpies, into which the Pierides were transformed after losing the contest; Forms part of the Collection of festival prints, 1530-1887 (Special Collections accn. no. P910002**); Trimmed within plate mark.1592. (34501/publishers)

Titles:

[Musical contest of the Muses and the Pierides] (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,,)

Stage setting, Intermedio 2. (C,U,undetermined,,)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

engraving (print) [300041340] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints)

print (visual work) [300041273]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: Published: 1592

Creator Display:

Epifanio d'Alfiano (Italian monk and printmaker, active 1591-1607) [preferred,GRISC]

Alfiano, Epifanio de (Italian monk and printmaker, active 1591-1607) [500044475]

Buontalenti, Bernardo (Florentine architect and painter, ca. 1531-1608) [500025452]

Bardi, Giovanni de' (Italian scholar, author, 1534-1612) [500354007]

Rossi, Bastiano de' (Italian writer, 15th-16th centuries) [500354148]

Locations:

Current: Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500353615] Getty Research Institute, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1575-194; 551920; (CMalG)1366-954; accession number: P910002** (FF. 203b)

Credit Line: copyright J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Research Institute, Special Collections

Address Note: 1200 Getty Center Dr., Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688

Display Materials: 1 print: engraving

	prints (visual works) [300041273]
	.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

	engraving (printing process) [300053225]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes)

Dimensions: ca. 23.4 x 33.7 cm; trimmed within platemark

General Subject:

events (preferred)

performing arts

Specific Subjects:

	festivals (celebrations) [300073472]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities), cultural events, celebrations) (AAT)

	Christine of Lorraine, Grand Duchess, consort of Ferdinand I, Grand Duke of Tuscany (Tuscan grand duchess, 1565-1636) [500353651]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	weddings (ceremonies) [300069158]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities), cultural events, ceremonies, cultural ceremonies, rites of passage) (AAT)

	Ferdinando I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany (Italian noble, 1549-1609) [500260482]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	history (literary genre) [300026358]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <concepts in the arts and humanities>, <genres in literature and performing arts>, <genres for literature>) (AAT)

	interludes [300378997]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Literary and Performing Arts Works (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	Lorraine, House of (European family, contemporary) [500353652]
	.....(Corporate Bodies) (ULAN)

	Medici family (Italian rulers, bankers, 15th-18th centuries) [500114961]
	.....(Corporate Bodies) (ULAN)

	Ovid (Roman poet, 43 BCE-17/18 CE) [500246979]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	Metamorphoses [901000110]
	.....((Literary works: Poetry, Named written and performed works, Literature and Performing Arts)) (ICON)

	depictions (visual works) [300248231]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by form>, <visual works by form of image>) (AAT)

	sets (theatrical) [300188014]
	.....(Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, architectural elements, <architectural elements by building type>) (AAT)

	Teatro mediceo degli Uffizi (Florence, Italy) [700000221]
	.....(Teatro Mediceo [700000221], Palazzo degli Uffizi [700009652], Built Works by class: institutional, public, commercial, and industrial buildings [700009567], Built Works [700000001]) (CONA)

	theater (discipline) [300054148]
	.....(Activities Facet, Disciplines (hierarchy name), disciplines (concept), humanities, <arts and related disciplines>, arts (broad discipline), performing arts (discipline), theater arts) (AAT)

	theaters (buildings) [300007117]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by function>, performing arts structures, performing arts buildings) (AAT)

	Muses [901001559]
	.....((Greek characters, Greek iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	Pierides [901001320]
	.....((Greek characters, Greek iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	contest [300069186]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities), cultural events) (AAT)

	Apollo [901000109]
	.....((Greek characters, Greek iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	grottoes [300006807]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by location or context>, garden structures) (AAT)

	arbors [300006781]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by location or context>, garden structures) (AAT)

	caryatid [300001583]
	.....(Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, architectural elements, <structural elements and components for structural elements>, structural elements, <supporting and resisting elements>, anthropomorphic supporting elements) (AAT)

	Hamadryads [901001321]
	.....((Greek characters, Greek iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

Inscriptions: D. Epif:o d'Alfiano mon:co vallombrosano f.

Related Works:

	printed from same plate/block .... [Musical contest of the Muses and the Pierides] [700001342]
	..........engraving (print); Epifanio d'Alfiano (Italian monk and printmaker, active 1591...; Published: 1592; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 1574-859; 551616; (CMalG)1366-954; accession number: P910002** (FF. 203a)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
[Musical contest of the Muses and the Pierides]	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 551920
Stage setting, Intermedio 2.	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

Subject: ....... [GRISC,VP]

....................... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

....................... Saslow, J. M. The Medici wedding of 1589 no. 27

....................... Nagler, A. M. Theater festivals of the Medici ill. 52

Note:
English	..... [GRISC]
	..... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)