Phaeton

Lully, Jean-Baptiste, 1632-1687 · 1683 · Paris : A l'entrée de la porte de l'Academie royalle de musique, au Palais royal, rué Saint Honoré : Par Christophe Ballard, seul imprimeur du roy pour la musique · 2 pictures

Phaeton is a 1683 opera libretto and score by Jean-Baptiste Lully, printed in Paris by Christophe Ballard, the king's music printer, for the Académie royale de musique. The pictures are small woodcut ornaments: a basket of flowers and fruit held up by two putti, and a horizontal frieze of scrolling foliage with three figures behind a pair of bowls. A designer might take from them the classic Baroque ornament vocabulary of garlands, scrolls, and cartouches for decorative borders and headpieces.

Phaethon (Greek mythology)

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