p9837

ARTIST: Tommaso Borgonio (Italy, 1620-1683)

TITLE OF WORK: "The tobacco ballet", chorus of Indian priests taking tobacco ("Il tabacco baletto", choro de sacerdoti indiani prendendo tabacco)

TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color

DATE: 1650

COMMENTS: "Il tabacco balletto", alle dame l' ultimo giorno di Carnevale, primo di Marzo, mille sei cento cinquanta. Ballato in Torino (A ballet presented in Turin on 01/03/1650, last day of Carnival). The Toba

LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Torino, Turin, Venezuela

DANCE FORM: classical ballet

KEYWORDS: religion