Auguste GarnerayFrench ballet designer

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  • reforms in ballet costume ( in stage design: Costume of the 18th and 19th centuries )

    Auguste Garneray and Hippolyte Lecomte were leading French ballet designers in the 19th century. The former’s work shows ingenuity in adapting contemporary dress to suggest different lands and other periods. The latter was originally a painter of historical episodes; accuracy rather than imagination is the distinguishing quality of his designs. In 1832 the influence of the Romantic period was...

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