ID: 700000724 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000724	Record Type: Movable Work

[Apollo and the Python] (engraving (print); Agostino Carracci (Italian painter, engraver, and draftsman,...; Published: ca. 1589-1592; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 551925; (OCoLC)ocm77645786; (CMalG)1366-954; accession number: P910002** (FF. 204))

Note: A related drawing by Bernardo Buontalenti in pen and brown ink, wash with watercolor is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (Inv. no. E 1188-1931); 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]); The print depicts the third 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; It records in reverse Bernardo Buontalenti's stage design for the third intermezzo enacting the combat between Apollo and the Python (cf. Ovid, Metamorphoses, I). The stage setting is composed of a glade in a densely wooded landscape, where the Python is surrounded by Delphian women and men conversing in an animated manner. Apollo, seen in a foreshortened pose, swoops down from the sky upon the dragon, sword in hand; Forms part of the Collection of festival prints, 1530-1887 (Special Collections accn. no. P910002**); Annotated in ink: Maggioni comprò a Bologna / nel 1790. Ink stamp on verso: GV with an oval between the letters and an inventory number in pencil (4404); Library has other impressions (state 1, state 2) that form part of the Italian Theater Collection: accn. no. P980004* (bx.1,f.4-5). Publication: [Siena]: Filippo Suchielli for Siena, [ca. 1589-1592].

Titles:

[Apollo and the Python] (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,,)

Stage setting, Intermedio 3. (C,U,English,,)

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)

etching (print) [300041365]

..... (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)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: Published: ca. 1589-1592

Creator Display:

Agostino Carracci (Italian painter, engraver, and draftsman, 1557-1602); published by Filippo Suchielli for Siena [preferred,GRISC]

printmaker Carracci, Agostino (Italian painter, engraver, and draftsman, 1557-1602) [500115349]

publisher Succhielli, Filippo (Italian publisher and printer, active ca. 1589-1592) [500353683]

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: 551925; (OCoLC)ocm77645786; (CMalG)1366-954; accession number: P910002** (FF. 204)

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

Other: Publication: Siena [7011179] Siena province (province), Tuscany (region (administrative division)), Italy (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: 1 print: etching, engraving, b&w; State 2 (cf. DeGrazia)

	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>)

	etching (printing process) [300053241]
	.......(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)

	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)

	black-and-white (colors) [300265434]
	.......(Physical Attributes Facet, Color (hierarchy name), colors (hues or tints), neutrals (colors))

Dimensions: 24.9 x 35.2 cm

General Subject:

events (preferred)

performing arts

human figures

religion and mythology

Specific Subjects:

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

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

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

	royal weddings [300379050]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities), cultural events, ceremonies, cultural ceremonies, rites of passage, weddings (ceremonies)) (AAT)

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

	histories (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)

	Pellegrina [901000111]
	.....((Literary works: Musical, Choreographic works, 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)

Inscriptions: Carracius fe.; Annotated in ink: Maggioni comprò a Bologna / nel 1790. Ink stamp on verso: GV with an oval between the letters and an inventory number in pencil (4404).

State: State 2 (cf. DeGrazia)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

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

Sources and Contributors:
[Apollo and the Python]	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 551925
Stage setting, Intermedio 3.	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

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

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

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