Sieg-Streit dess Lufft vnd Wassers : Freuden-Fest zu Pferd zu dem glorwürdigisten Beyläger beeder kayserlichen Majestäten Leopoldi dess Ersten, römischen Kaysers ... vnd Margarita, gebohrner königlichen Infantin auss Hispanien : dargestellet in dero kayserlichen Residenz Statt Wienn

Sbarra, Francesco, 17th cent, Bertali, Antonio, 1605-1669, Carducci, Alessandro, Schmelzer, Johann Heinrich, approximately 1623-1680. Arie per il balletto à cavallo, Hoey, Nicolas de, Ossenbeeck, Jan van, 1624?-1674, Steen, Franciscus van der, 1625-1672, Bouttats, Gerard, b. ca. 1630, Pasetti, Carlo, fl. 1639-1695 · 1667 · Gedruckt zu Wienn in Oesterreich : Bey Mattheu Cosmerovio, der Röm. Kayserl. Majest. Hoff-Buchdrucker · 29 pictures

A 1667 Viennese festival book printed by Matthäus Cosmerovius for the court of Emperor Leopold I, recording the mounted ballet staged for his wedding to the Spanish Infanta Margarita. The engravings show diagrammed formations of horsemen and foot dancers across ovals and squares, a plan a designer could borrow for symmetrical crowd layouts, ordered grids, and processional patterns.

Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1640-1705 · Margarita Teresa, Infanta of Spain, Empress, consort of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1651-1673 · Ballets · Festivals · Tournaments, Medieval · Horse ballet

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