{"id":7831,"date":"2012-12-11T17:33:24","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T22:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/?page_id=7831"},"modified":"2013-02-18T17:52:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T22:52:07","slug":"l-49","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/catalogues\/lost-works\/l-49\/","title":{"rendered":"L.49 Costume Designs"},"content":{"rendered":"

1530-1540<\/p>\n

Vasari, 1568, II, 211 (Vasari-Milanesi, V, 170), in the French years of the \u201cLife\u201d of Rosso: \u201c…fece disegni …per abigliamenti… di mascherate…\u201d\u00a0 Vasari, 1568, II, 308 (Vasari-Milanesi, V, 433), in the account of Boyvin\u2019s activity: \u201c…onde si vede che di Francia son venute stampate dopo la morte del Rosso, tutto quello, che si \u00e8 potuto trovare di sua mano, come… alcune maschere fatte per lo Re Francesco, simile alle parche…\u201d<\/p>\n

There are four costume designs that can certainly be attributed to Rosso, those of the Three Fates, of around 1534, known from an engraving by Pierre Milan (Fig.E.104<\/a>), which may be the \u201cparche\u201d mentioned by Vasari, and another of Hercules, recorded in an anonymous etching (Fig.E.160<\/a>), which could have been designed for the festivities that accompanied Charles V\u2019s visit to Fontainebleau at the very end of 1539 (Carroll, 1987, 31, 212-216, nos. 69-70, with Figs. and 342-344, no. 107, with Fig.).\u00a0 But there must surely have been other such designs by the king\u2019s most important artist for the festivities in Paris and Fontainebleau, and perhaps elsewhere, that were part of the important occasions of Francis I\u2019s reign.\u00a0 Although there are recorded payments to those who actually made costumes and masks in 1533, 1537, and 1538, there are no documents that mention Rosso as the designer of them.1<\/sup><\/a> But the records of payments to Rosso almost never specify his activities.<\/p>\n

Dan, 1642, 218, states that when Charles V arrived at Fontainebleau on 24 December 1539 there were to greet him in the forest \u201cune troupe de personnes d\u00e9guis\u00e9es en forme de Dieux, et de Deesses boccageres\u201d and then goes on to say that their rustic dancing \u201cne fut pas moins agreable en la bigearre fa\u00e7on dont ils estoient revestus,…\u201d\u00a0 No indication is given by Dan, or by anyone else, of who designed these costumes.\u00a0 Vasari mentions that half of the \u201cornamenti\u201d made for this visit were designed by Rosso, and the other half by Primaticcio (see under L.48<\/a>).\u00a0 But he makes no reference to who designed the costumes, unless \u201cornamenti\u201d includes masks and costumes.\u00a0 However, it is possible that Rosso designed those that Dan describes.\u00a0 The Hercules costume referred to above could have been one of them, or it could have been designed for some other event performed at the time of this visit.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>1<\/sup> On the prints of various masks in profile that have been incorrectly attributed to Rosso, see RE.13<\/a>.\u00a0 There are also two full costume designs that have been wrongly thought to be his inventions (RD.26<\/a>, and RE.12<\/a>).\u00a0 But these derivations from his art bear witness to a knowledge of his kind of costume designs from more examples than have been so far identified.\u00a0 For the documents see Laborde, II, 1880, 214, 234, 237-238, 242-243.\u00a0 The first of these of 1533 (modern style) refers to \u201cquatre habillemens de masques d\u2019escarlate rouge et violette\u201d and to payment made at the end of the preceding year, but the occasion for which the costumes were made is not indicated.\u00a0 The second payment of 15 September 1537 (mentioned by Champion, 1935, 119) is \u201cpour fa\u00e7ons d\u2019habillemens de masque\u201d apparently for the festivities connected to the marriage of Francis I\u2019s daughter Madeleine to James V, King of Scotland, on 1 January 1537.\u00a0 One payment of 1538 is for \u201cdeux accoustremens de masques que le dit Seigneur [Francis I] a faiz faire pour servir au festin des noces de Monseigneur de Nevers;\u201d the other is for \u201cacoustremens de masques … tant au jour de la feste des nopces de Monseigneur de Longueville que pour le tourncy fait apr\u00e8s la solempnit\u00e9 desd. nopces,…\u201d\u00a0 The lengthy account of 1539 (modern style) is for \u201cdeux acoustremens de masques\u201d but the festivity for which they were made is not named.\u00a0 For some of these various costumes Rosso might well have supplied the designs.\u00a0 But so, however, might Primaticcio, as well as others (see McAllister Johnson, in EdF<\/i>, 1972, 27, in regard to a reference of 1534 to Nicolas Belin da Modena as a \u201csculpteur et faiseur de masques\u201d).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1530-1540 Vasari, 1568, II, 211 (Vasari-Milanesi, V, 170), in the French years of the \u201cLife\u201d of Rosso: \u201c…fece disegni …per abigliamenti… di mascherate…\u201d\u00a0 Vasari, 1568, II, 308 (Vasari-Milanesi, V, 433), in the account of Boyvin\u2019s activity: \u201c…onde si vede che di Francia son venute stampate dopo la morte del Rosso, tutto quello, che si \u00e8 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":826,"menu_order":54,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7831","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7831","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=7831"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8551,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7831\/revisions\/8551"}],"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=7831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}