About Digital Collections
Browse
Search only public domain materials
Search Browse About
Search only public domain materials
Items Collections Divisions
Digital Collections Using Images Using Data
Items L'Hipermestra
+ o - ^
previous next

L'Hipermestra

More Details Cite This Item

Library division & collection with this item:

LIBRARY DIVISION
Jerome Robbins Dance Division

  • Choregraphie
  • A long minuet as danced at Bath
  • Sketchbook
  • Sarah Bernhardt's farewell American tour
  • Scrapbook documenting the appearances of dancer Alice Eis and her partner Bert French
  • The dance score
  • Traité élémentaire, théorique et pratique de l'art de la danse
  • Sketchbook
  • Coreografie per ballabili d'opera
  • Caricature of Sergeĭ Dyagilev
  • La sténochorégraphie
  • Ehon Tsūhōshi
  • Le maître a danser
  • America
  • Costume designs for the ballet La Pastorella Svizzera
Previous Next

COLLECTION
Prints depicting dance

View as book

SUB-COLLECTION
Ballet or dance scenes from theatrical works, with or without people in them

View as book

This Item

L'Hipermestra

View this item elsewhere:

Title
L'Hipermestra
Names
Degli Alli, Silvio (Etcher)
Tacca, Ferdinando, 1619-1686 (Artist)
Moniglia, Giovanni Andrea, 1624-1700 (Librettist)
Collection

Prints depicting dance

Ballet or dance scenes from theatrical works, with or without people in them

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1658 (Questionable)
Issuance: single unit
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZFA-17 Alli S Hip 1
Topics
Cavalli, Pier Francesco, 1602-1676. Hipermestra
Accademia degli immobili (Florence, Italy)
Genres
Prints
Set design drawings
Notes
Biographical/historical: L'Hipermestra (music, Francesco Cavalli; libretto, Giovanni Andrea Moniglia; scenery, Ferdinando Tacca) was first performed at the Teatro dell'Accademia degli Immobili, Florence, in 1658, on the occasion of the birth of a son to King Philip of Spain. Derived from ancient Greek myth, the story treats the dilemma of Hypermestra, whose loyalties are torn between her father and lover.
Biographical/historical: Etching made by Silvio degli Alli after a design by Ferdinando Tacca. The online catalog of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, which holds copies of other scenes from L'Hipermestra, notes that these etchings were made in two plates, one for the proscenium and one for the scene onstage. This print was made from the latter plate.
Physical Description
Etchings
Extent: 21 x 26 cm.
Description
Scene from the opera L'Hipermestra, depicting the meeting of two men in a tree-lined clearing; a row of men stands at left.
Type of Resource
Still image
Languages
Italian
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b19591385
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 93835ac0-8829-0130-1488-58d385a7bbd0
Rights Statement
The New York Public Library believes that this item is in the public domain under the laws of the United States, but did not make a determination as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. This item may not be in the public domain under the laws of other countries. Though not required, if you want to credit us as the source, please use the following statement, "From The New York Public Library," and provide a link back to the item on our Digital Collections site. Doing so helps us track how our collection is used and helps justify freely releasing even more content in the future.

Item timeline of events

  • 1658: Issued
  • 2013: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

MLA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "L'Hipermestra" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1658. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/78d58890-9b04-0130-258a-58d385a7bbd0

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "L'Hipermestra" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 22, 2024. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/78d58890-9b04-0130-258a-58d385a7bbd0

APA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1658). L'Hipermestra Retrieved from https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/78d58890-9b04-0130-258a-58d385a7bbd0

Wikipedia Citation

<ref name=NYPL>{{cite web | url=https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/78d58890-9b04-0130-258a-58d385a7bbd0 | title= (still image) L'Hipermestra, (1658) |author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |accessdate=November 22, 2024 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref>

L'Hipermestra