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This book aims to shuffle some long-standing attitudes about the relationship between theatre and print culture. Examining the influential print series Balli di Sfessania di Jacomo Callot, a suite of 24 prints designed and etched by Jacques Callot in 1621-1622, this book highlights the influence of visual culture on commedia dell'arte historiography and its performance traditions since the early seventeenth century. Callot's ability to captivate viewers through scale, dynamic figures, and innovative spatial schemes has manifested an impassioned gaze by many admirers.
Through acts of collecting, adulation, and replication, prints from the Balli di Sfessania have been sourced and re-sourced, excavated and mined, copied and misread, over time as visual records of the past. With a focus on one image group as a case study for the trans-media circulation of images over four hundred years, scholars will find new ways to engage with prints wielding highly impressionable status and reproducibility.
Contents
List of Figures vi
Introduction: The Balli di Sfessania di Jacomo Callot 1
1 Jacques Callot's Paper Theatre: Etching and Improvisation 65
2 The Capriccio, the Grotesque, and the Callotesque 83
3 Collecting Callot 98
4 The Romantic Resurrection of Callot and the Commedia dell'arte 114
5 Peering at the Prints: The Impassioned Gaze on Paper 131
6 Callot on Stage: From Grotesque to Hero 146
Conclusion: Roland Barthes Lived on Rue Callot: Theatre and the
Replicated Image 161
Bibliography 167
Acknowledgments 185
Index 185



