Teatro dell’Opera, Roma (La bella addormentata), 2023
GPC-2320
Teatro dell’Opera, Rome (Sleeping Beauty)
Pencil and collage on paper
50 x 70 cm
Titled, signed, and dated on the verso, centre: “Teatro dell’Opera / Roma / “La bella addormentata” / Giulio Paolini / 2023”
Collection of the artist
• Landscape: Fratelli Alinari, Nemi – Prov. di Roma. Panorama del Lago e della piccola borgata di Genzano, c. 1890, albumen silver print, 21 x 27 cm, Archivi Alinari, Florence (ACA-F-006861-0000).
- Figure: Sleeping Ariadne, 1st-2nd century AD Roman copy of a Hellenistic original, marble, 161 cm, Musei Vaticani, Rome; reproduction from Francis Haskell, Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982), p. 185, fig. 96 (“Cleopatra”).
• Title from the ballet by Pëtr Il’ič Čajkovskij, La belle au bois dormant, 1888-89.
| • | Stagione 2023-24 (Rome: Teatro dell’Opera, 2023), col. repr. pp. 68-69 (detail), 136 (titled “Serata Benjamin Millepied”). |
