Codice albumGBB-F-006513

Codice inventarioGBB-F-006513-0000

1845, LONDON, GREAT BRITAIN: The celebrated italian prima ballerina MARIA TAGLIONI (1804-1884). Portrait in the role of SYLPHIDE by british painter artist Alfred Edward Chalon (1780-1860), engraved by Edward Morton and pubblished by J. Mitchell, London. Taglioni was born in Stockholm to the Italian choreographer Filippo Taglioni and the Swedish dancer Sophie Karsten. Marie rose to fame as a danceuse when her father (and teacher) created the ballet La Sylphide (1832) for her. Designed as a showcase for Marie's talent, it was the first ballet where dancing en pointe had an aesthetic rationale and was not merely an acrobatic stunt, often involving ungraceful arm movements and exertions, as had been the approach of dancers in the late 1820s

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