Performing Worlds at the Baroque Court of Christine of France
Tobacco, Purple and Pearls
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2026
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-5812-9 (ISBN)
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
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Reframes Baroque performance as a critical laboratory where bodies, materials and environments negotiated global circulation, political legitimacy and ecological imagination.
Performing Worlds considers the natural resources, landscapes and stagecraft that viewers might have seen in ballets for Christine of France (1606-63), daughter of Marie de Médicis and regent of the Duchy of Savoy, at her court in Turin. It focuses on large commemorative drawings that reanimate the dancers’ movements and the transformations of materials and environments—local and global—staged to promote Savoy’s trading interests to European audiences. Imagine dancers from Venezuela coiling tobacco ropes as they twirl, women from Savoy spinning purple linen before miniature Alpine flax fields, and divers from Sri Lanka retrieving pearls with stones and ropes in a room turned into a majestic seascape. By focusing on three ballets and the resources performed therein – tobacco, the colour gris-de-lin and pearls – the volume probes the transformative potential of these performances: how they transmuted environments into resources and desirable goods, and unruly historical dynamics into ideal landscapes and graceful dance steps.
Performing Worlds considers the natural resources, landscapes and stagecraft that viewers might have seen in ballets for Christine of France (1606-63), daughter of Marie de Médicis and regent of the Duchy of Savoy, at her court in Turin. It focuses on large commemorative drawings that reanimate the dancers’ movements and the transformations of materials and environments—local and global—staged to promote Savoy’s trading interests to European audiences. Imagine dancers from Venezuela coiling tobacco ropes as they twirl, women from Savoy spinning purple linen before miniature Alpine flax fields, and divers from Sri Lanka retrieving pearls with stones and ropes in a room turned into a majestic seascape. By focusing on three ballets and the resources performed therein – tobacco, the colour gris-de-lin and pearls – the volume probes the transformative potential of these performances: how they transmuted environments into resources and desirable goods, and unruly historical dynamics into ideal landscapes and graceful dance steps.
Elisa Antonietta Daniele is an early modern art historian whose research explores court spectacle, allegory, cartography and the intersections of ecology, commodities and transcultural exchange. She was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in Social Sciences and Humanities (2022–24) at the University of Bologna. Her research has also been supported by the University of California, Los Angeles and Harvard – Villa I Tatti.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Performing Worlds
1. Leafing through the Ballets
2. Bodies and Smoke: Il Tabacco (Tobacco), 1650
3. A Fugitive Hue: Il Gridelino (Gris-de-lin), 1653
4. Baroque Shores: L’Unione (The Pearl), 1660
Conclusion: Christine of France’s Portrait as Minerva
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.6.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Conversions |
| Zusatzinfo | 30 integrated colour illustrations and 14 black & white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3995-5812-9 / 1399558129 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3995-5812-9 / 9781399558129 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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