ID: 700001345 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001345	Record Type: Movable Work

[Rescue of Arion] (engraving (print); Alfiano, Epifanio d' (engraver, fl. 1591-1607); Published: 1592; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 1575-491; 552199; (CMalG)1366-954; accession number: P910002** (FF. 206))

Note: Dated 1592 by Saslow; 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 fifth 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; The engraving records Bernardo Buontalenti's stage design for the fifth intermezzo, enacting the rescue of Arion (cf. Plutarch, Moralia). Amphitrite is accompanied by tritons and nymphs swimming in a sea flanked by reefs. Arion rides a dolphin, while the vessel he has been travelling on is depicted on the left. Amphitrite holds a coat of arms, whose shield is party per fess, star and two birds. It differs from the one illustrated by Saslow; Trimmed in the right margin, with loss of plate mark; Forms part of the Collection of festival prints, 1530-1887 (Special Collections accn. no. P910002**).[1592] (34501/publishers)

Titles:

[Rescue of Arion] (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,,)

Stage setting, Intermedio 5. (C,U,undetermined,U,U)

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:

Alfiano, Epifanio d' (engraver, fl. 1591-1607) [preferred,GRISC]

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

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

scenographer Buontalenti, Bernardo (Florentine architect and painter, ca. 1531-1608) Extent: work depicted [500025452]

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

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: 1575-491; 552199; (CMalG)1366-954; accession number: P910002** (FF. 206)

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. 26.4 x 36.3 cm

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)

	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)

Provenance: xxx

Inscriptions: D. Epifanio. d'Alfiano incid.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

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

Sources and Contributors:
[Rescue of Arion]	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 552199
Stage setting, Intermedio 5.	........ [GRISC]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

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

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

....................... Saslow, J. M. The Medici wedding of 1589 no. 55

....................... Nagler, A. M. Theater festivals of the Medici p. 88, ill. 58

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