ID: 700008565 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008565	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Figure (Beltrame di Milano [?]) (figurine; Meissen Porcelain Manufactory; ca. 1720; J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, Calif...)

Note: Probably represents Beltrame di Milano, a wistful, blind character from one of the more popular commedia dell'arte comedies. His theatrical pose and gesture enliven the unpainted porcelain. Characters from touring Italian theater groups known as the commedia dell'arte inspired sculptors at the Meissen porcelain manufactory from 1720 on. Beginning in the Renaissance, performances of various comedies by the professional actors' guild, or arte, had offered an entirely new form of entertainment, and this form of theater became increasingly popular in the 1700s. Commedia companies traveled and performed throughout Western Europe; actors entertained their audiences with music, dancing, and acrobatics combined with dramatic stories told with improvised dialogue. Theater-loving Europeans collected porcelain examples of their favorite characters from the commedia dell' arte, either singly or in groups, to ornament their dining tables and other areas of the home.

Titles:

Figure (Beltrame di Milano [?]) (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Beltrame di Milano (C,U,RP,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

figurine [300047455] (preferred)

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

statue [300047600]

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

Classifications:

decorative arts (preferred)

Creation Date: ca. 1720

Creator Display:

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory [preferred,VP]

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory (German porcelain factory, active from 1710 to the present) [500054662]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500115988] J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Other: Creation: Meissen [7012844] Saxony (state), Germany (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: hard-paste porcelain

	hard paste porcelain (material) [300010663]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, clay, <clay by product>, <ceramic and ceramic by product>, ceramic (material), porcelain (material))

Dimensions: 16.5 x 6.8 x 6.7 cm (6 1/2 x 2 11/16 x 2 5/8 in.)

Cultures:

German (preferred)

General Subject:

human figures (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Beltrame de la Gippa [901001327]
	.....((Commedia dell’arte characters, Literary characters, Literature and Performing Arts)) (ICON)

	actor (performing artist) [300025658]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in the humanities>, <people in the arts and related occupations>, <people in the arts>, <people in the performing arts>, performing artists) (AAT)

	commedia dell' arte [300055912]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <concepts in the arts and humanities>, <genres in literature and performing arts>, comedy (general genre)) (AAT)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: carvings and sculptures

Sources and Contributors:
Figure (Beltrame di Milano [?])	........ [VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)
Beltrame di Milano	........ [VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)