# Sketches for costumes

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## Artwork

- Artist: [BUONTALENTI, Bernardo](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/buontalenti-bernardo-redbd784250d244>)
- Date: 1551-1600
- Technique: Manuscript \(Ms. Pal. C. B. 3. 53, vol. II\)

## Commentary

Sketches for costumes 1589 Manuscript \(Ms. Pal. C. B. 3. 53, vol. II\) Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence Bernardo Buontalenti, the Florentine architect and sculptor, created also scenery for feast and spectacles. On the occasion of the marriage of Fernando I de&#39; Medici to Cristina of Lorraine in 1589, he designed the scenery, costumes, ornaments and chariots for the six Intermezzi \(Intervals\) in Gerolamo Bargagli&#39;s play, Pellegrina. The scene on folio 29 is for the first Intermezzo. In the pen drawing painted in watercolour four gods are shown: Mercury, Apollo, Jupiter and Asteria.

## Related artworks

- [Exterior view of the Grotto](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/buontalenti-bernardo-redbd784250d244/exterior-view-of-the-grotto-r529639ef59a423>)
- [Exterior View of the Grotto](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/buontalenti-bernardo-redbd784250d244/exterior-view-of-the-grotto-r910c956079cd31>)
- [Exterior view of the Grotto](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/buontalenti-bernardo-redbd784250d244/exterior-view-of-the-grotto-raa750cb1e79837>)
- [Façade](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/buontalenti-bernardo-redbd784250d244/faade-r59ba8b8ef7d140>)
- [Sketches for costumes](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/buontalenti-bernardo-redbd784250d244/sketches-for-costumes-r3d3753f978e11b>)
- [Stairway](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/buontalenti-bernardo-redbd784250d244/stairway-rb752b5fd141c98>)
- [The Grotta Grande](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/buontalenti-bernardo-redbd784250d244/the-grotta-grande-r0d75d702cb293f>)
- [The Grotta Grande](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/buontalenti-bernardo-redbd784250d244/the-grotta-grande-r1eb0492c5b6f6e>)
- [The Grotta Grande](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/buontalenti-bernardo-redbd784250d244/the-grotta-grande-r723f14c64e65bf>)
- [Vase](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/buontalenti-bernardo-redbd784250d244/vase-r5df23df8246a5f>)
- [View of the Tribune](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/buontalenti-bernardo-redbd784250d244/view-of-the-tribune-r41bedddc31165d>)
- [Villa Medicea](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/buontalenti-bernardo-redbd784250d244/villa-medicea-r36ad00e0808c0d>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)