Periodic Reporting for period 1 - ANIMATE (Animation, Materials, Transcultural Ecologies: Performing Worlds at the Baroque Savoy Court of Christine of France)

ANIMATE investigates the spectacles staged across the Duchy of Savoy – from its capital Turin to the top of Mont Cenis – during the lifetime of the regent Christine of Bourbon-France (1606-1663). By examining the natural resources, landscapes, and stagecraft that audiences...