Le Nozze degli dei: Sesta Scena di Tutto Cielo (The Wedding of the Gods; Act V, Scene 2, Finale: The heavens)
Stefano Della Bella, Italian, 1610 - 1664
after Alfonso Parigi, the Younger, Italian, 1606 - 1656
1637
Etching on laid paper
Sheet: 8 × 11 5/16 in. (20.3 × 28.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through a gift from the Class of 1935
PR.979.66.7
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower left margin: Alfo.vs [vs in superscript] Parig.vs [vs in superscript] Inu / SDB [artist's monogram; effaced] Delt. e. F; insribed, in plate, lower center margin: SESTA SCENA DI TVTTO CIELO; Watermark, center: [sun]
Course History
ITAL 23, Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Italian Literature and Culture, Nancy Canepa, Winter 2015
ITAL 23, 17th and 18th Century Italian Literature, Nancy Canepa, Spring 2022
Exhibition History
An Introduction to the History of Art: Works from the 15th to 18th Centuries, Art 2, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 14, 1993-January 30, 1994.
Old Master Prints from the Dartmouth Collection, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 23-April 10, 1987.
Stefano Della Bella, Etchings of Le Nozze degli dei, Gift of the Class of 1935, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 8-September 9, 1979.
The Age of the Marvelous, Hood Museum of Art, September 21-November 24, 1991; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, January 25-March 22, 1992; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, May 24-August 25, 1992; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, October 6, 1992-January 3, 1993, no. 170.
The Image Impressed, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 25-July 31, 1985.
Theater and Festival Etchings and Master Prints and Drawings from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century, William H. Schab Gallery, Inc., New York, October 6-December 8, 1978, no. 31, 31a-f.
Theater Art of the Medici, Beaumont-May Gallery and Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 10-December 7, 1980; Harvard Theatre Collection, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 15, 1980-January 31, 1981.
Publication History
Joy Kenseth, Editor, "The Age of the Marvelous", Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, 1991, pp.397-400.
Arthur R. Blumenthal, "Theater Art of the Medici", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1980.
William H. Schab Gallery, Inc., "Theater and Festival Etchings and Master Prints and Drawings from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century, (catalogue 59), New York, New York, 1978, pp. 16-17, nos. 31, 31a-f.
Provenance
Professor Filippo Clemente, University of Rome; William H. Schab Gallery, Inc., New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1979.
Catalogue Raisonne
De Vesme (1971): 925
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