A lot of devices used in these structures were destroyed by Gaspare Vigarani out of professional envy, though drawings of them were reproduced in Diderot's Encyclopedie.
A temporary one of these structures built for Henrietta Maria's sake is described in the FlorimÃ¨ne plan. A lot of devices used in these structures were destroyed by Gaspare Vigarani out of professional envy, though drawings of them were reproduced in Diderot's Encyclopedie. A man dubbed "the Great Sorcerer," Giacomo Torelli, developed a way for one person to manipulate this sort of thing via grooves and trolleys in the chariot-and-pole method. Rotating triangular prisms called (*) periaktoi can be used as part of these structures. Nicola Sabbatini developed the "wing and groove" method for decorating these things, and vanishing-point perspective was first used in them by Sebastiano Serlio. In Elizabethan times, a painted ceiling called the "heavens" covered these areas, which "groundlings" paid a penny to view. For 10 points, name these structures often separated by a proscenium arch from a viewing audience.
A temporary one of these structures built for Henrietta Maria's sake is described in the FlorimÃ¨ne plan.
theatrical stages [or stage sets; or stage settings; or stage scenery; or stage backdrops; accept answers mentioning "opera" or "operatic" in addition to the above;  prompt on theaters