Catherine de’ Medici (Ballet Comique de la Reine) - Château Chenonceau 4

SUBJECTS: high-heeled shoes, House of Valois and Bourbon, history of theater, magnificences, Ballet Comique de la Reine (Royne), myth of Circe, Renaissance architecture, Chenonceau gallery, initials, monogram, Catherine’s Italien garden PERSONAE: Queen Catherine de’ Medici (Fr: Catherine de Médicis), King Henri II (Duke of Orléans), Pina Bausch, Diane de Poitiers, François II, Charles IX, Elisabeth of Austria, Henri III, Marguerite de Valois (Margot), Mary Stuart Queen of Scots, Queen Louise de Lorraine, Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx, Philibert de l’Orme, Jacques Androüet du Cerceau, Jean Bullant, Bernard Palissy BUILDINGS: Château Chenonceau, Tuileries Palace, Château de Blois, Hôtel de la Reine, Column of the Horoscope in Paris, Château de Saint-Maur, Valois chapel /.mausoleum (Rotunda), Basilica (Basilique) of Saint Denis MUSIC in particular: Claudio Monteverdi - Tirsi e Clori is part of the seventh book of madrigals, published in 1619 in Venezia by Bartolomeo Magni, and dedicated to Catherina de’ Medici () See my Playlist on architecture: