La Monarchia Latina Trionfante

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Artist/Maker	Lodovico Ottavio Burnacini (set designer) Matthäus Küsel (engraver and publisher)
Place of origin	Vienna (made)

Engraving depicting a theatrical setting, bound together with 22 others in grey boards.

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Categories	Theatre Pageants and Ceremonies Entertainment & Leisure Designs Prints Royalty Commemoration
Object type	Theatre design
Titles	La Monarchia Latina Trionfante (series title) Zeus contending against the Titans (generic title)
Materials and techniques	engraving Printing Ink Engraving
Brief description	Küsel, Matthäus. Engraving of a design by Lodovico Ottavio Burnaci for La Monarchia Latina Trionfante, an entertainment held in Vienna in 1678 to celebrate the birth of the Archduke Joseph (later the Emperor Joseph I). Zeus contending against the Titans.
Physical description	Engraving depicting a theatrical setting, bound together with 22 others in grey boards.
Dimensions	Height: 13.5in Width: 18.75in 1950 dimensions are for the bound volume containing this engraving and 22 others (E.175 to 197-1950)
Content description	Zeus contending against the Titans, with an army and a procession of elephants
Object history	Engraving depicting a theatrical setting designed by L. O. Burnacini for the entertainment La Monarchia Latina Trionfante, with music by Antonio Draghi and Johann Heinrich Schmeizer, produced in Vienna in 1678 at the festivities held in celebration of the birth of the Archduke Joseph (afterwards the Emperor Joseph I).
Subject depicted	Elephants
Bibliographic references	Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1950, London: HMSO, 1962. F. Biach-Schiffmann, Giovanni und Lodovico Burnacini, Theater und Feste am Wiener Hofe, Vienna & Berlin, 1931.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.175-1950

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O595925/la-monarchia-latina-trionfante-theatre-design-lodovico-ottavio-burnacini/

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