SCHINKEL, Karl Friedrich (b. 1781, Neuruppin, d. 1841, Berlin) |
Stage set for Mozart's Magic Flute1815Gouache, 463 x 616 mm Staatliche Museen, Berlin | ||
One of the most impressive incunabula of the intellectual enthusiasm in the Romantic period for the Orient (and especially for Egypt) was Schinkel's stage design for Mozart's opera The Magic Flute. For the Queen of the Night it shows the Egyptian starry sky.
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