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- Title
THE LOST OPPORTUNITY: TWO PROJECTS OF FILIPPO JUVARRA CONCERNING ROYAL THEATERS AND THE MARRIAGE POLICY BETWEEN THE COURTS OF TURIN AND LISBON (1719-1722).
- Authors
RAGGI, GIUSEPPINA
- Abstract
From 1719 to the end of 1721 was pursued at the Portuguese and Savoy courts formal and informal diplomacy concerning the possible marriage between the prince of Savoy, later Carlo Emanuele III of Sardinia and Infanta Francisca of Braganza, the younger sister of Portuguese King João V. As a part of this effort, the Duke of Savoy, Vittorio Amadeo II took advantage of Filippo Juvarra's stay in Lisbon during 1719 and entrusted him with a secret mission to learn about the infanta as much as he can. From November 1720 to March 1722, the Turin agent Jean-Baptiste Despine, under the cover name of Gerolamo Vega, also stayed in Lisbon and wrote to the King Vittorio Amadeo II more than fifty letters concerning the infanta. At that point the marriage was considered imminent and many architectural projects were commissioned from Filippo Juvarra which were supposed to enhance the planned celebrations. Among them were the projects for two royal theaters, one in Lisbon and the other in Turin. The analysis of these two theatrical buildings allows us to identify them as the models for the architectural design by Benedetto Alfieri of the new Teatro Regio inaugurated in 1740.
- Subjects
TURIN (Italy); MARRIAGES of royalty &; nobility; ARCHITECTURAL models; COURTS; ROYAL weddings; MARRIAGE
- Publication
Music in Art: International Journal for Music Iconography, 2019, Vol 44, Issue 1/2, p119
- ISSN
1522-7464
- Publication type
Article