Daniel Rabel and the Grotesque

Authors

  • John H. Astingtion University of Toronto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12745/et.4.1.614

Abstract

This note examines some aspects of the iconography of the costume designs of the chief designer for the French ballets de cour in the 1620s and 1630s, locating a tradition of caricature and grotesquerie at least a hundred years old, with its origins in German graphic art.

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Published

2001-01-01

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2001)

Section

Notes

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