1530-1540<\/p>\n
Vasari, 1568, II, 211 (Vasari-Milanesi, V, 170), in the French part of the \u201cLife\u201d of Rosso: \u201c… fece disegni … per abigliamenti … di trionfi…\u201d<\/p>\n
Rosso\u2019s experience with the designing of temporary structures for triumphal entries goes back to late 1515 when he was responsible for one of the triumphal arches erected for the entry of Leo X into Florence (L.12<\/a>).\u00a0 Vasari records that he designed half of the \u201cornamenti\u201d that were made at Fontainebleau in honor of Charles V\u2019s visit in December 1539, and goes on to say that \u201c… le cose, che fece il Rosso d\u2019Archi, di colossi, altre cose simili furono … le piu stupende, che da altri insino allora fussero state fatte mai\u201d (see L.48<\/a>, where other sources are cited).\u00a0 It is possible that Rosso\u2019s Dream of Hercules<\/i> (Fig.D.78a<\/a>; Fig.E.17<\/a>) was invented for a triumphal arch erected for this occasion (Carroll, 1987, 31, 344-346, no. 108, with Fig.).\u00a0 His Figure Costumed as Hercules<\/i> (Fig.E.160<\/a>) may also have been made for some event related to this visit.\u00a0 For the city of Paris Rosso designed an over life-size statue of Hercules in silver that was given to the emperor on 4 January 1540 (L.59<\/a>).<\/p>\n This is the full extent of the present knowledge of Rosso\u2019s activity of this kind.\u00a0 There may, however, have been other occasions for which Francis I had Rosso design festival decorations (see n. 1 of the entry on lost costume designs, L.49<\/a>, for some indication of events for which Rosso might have worked, supplying, perhaps, not only costume designs, but designs for temporary structures as well).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1530-1540 Vasari, 1568, II, 211 (Vasari-Milanesi, V, 170), in the French part of the \u201cLife\u201d of Rosso: \u201c… fece disegni … per abigliamenti … di trionfi…\u201d Rosso\u2019s experience with the designing of temporary structures for triumphal entries goes back to late 1515 when he was responsible for one of the triumphal arches erected for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":826,"menu_order":52,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7827","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7827"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8278,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7827\/revisions\/8278"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}