Livree e costumi per tornei e balletti a cavallo nella Bologna del Seicento

Starting from a repertoire of drawings of feathered headdresses and horse bards conserved in the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe of the Pinacoteca Nazionale in Bologna, the contribution reflects on the costumes of 17th-century Bolognese knightly festivities. The one hundred and fourteen watercolours, partially attributed by Giovanna Gaeta Bertelà to Baccio del Bianco, is compared both with other iconographic evidences – such as the enigmatic canvases with Carousels of the Conservatorio delle Putte del Baraccano (1610-1611) or Giovan Battista Coriolano’s engravings for Amore prigioniero in Delo (1628) – and with manuscript and printed sources such as the treatise Il torneo by Bonaventura Pistofilo (Bologna 1627) and Il giuoco de Cavalieri by Berlingiero Gessi (Bologna 1671).