High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Giacomo Torelli (1608–1678) was the most important set designer of the middle of the seventeenth century. Born in 1608 in the town of Fano, the year of Giulio Parigi’s work on Il Giudizio di Paride in Florence, Torelli was of noble birth. His work in stage design was extensively engraved and hence survives as the most complete record of mid-to-late seventeenth century set design. Torelli produced designs first for the public theatre in Venice, and then from 1645 in France on a summons of the Queen (Anne of Austria), he worked there initially as set designer to the Italian commedia troupe. Although ostracised during the Fronde (1648–53) after Louis XIV’s return to Paris in 1653 Torelli became involved more in the ballet de cours than in opera, reflecting the passion of the king for dancing. Torelli’s career came to an end in France in 1661 when he worked with the doomed Nicholas Fouquet, on sets for Moliere’s Les Facheux, for his fete in...

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