Une scénographie de Servandoni conservée pour les spectacles de l'Opéra à Paris: le décor de la ville de Thèbes du <i>Triomphe de l'harmonie</i> (1737)
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Abstract
Abstract Until now, the work of Jean‐Nicolas Servandoni for the lyric stages of Paris has only been known through archival papers, descriptions published in the Mercure de France and a handful of stage plans and sections. However, a drawing held in the Musée des arts décoratifs in Lyon allows us to see for the first time what one of his set designs for the stage of the Opéra may actually have looked like. Thanks to manuscript notes penned on the drawing in the eighteenth century, it is possible to accurately identify and attribute the drawing, of which no detailed examination has previously been undertaken. Although it does not show the stage picture in its entirety, the design – conceived in 1737 for the third entrée of Grenet and Lefranc de Pompignan's opéra‐ballet, Le triomphe de l'harmonie– carries an overlay, showing how a key moment in the drama was staged. It illustrates the moment at which Amphion, to protect the city of Thebes from attack by savages, magically causes new walls to rise into place ‘par le charme de sa voix’. Unpublished sources offer evidence of this scene's success, which was due in no small part to Servandoni, and to his involvement in the production just before he left the Opéra to create some even more spectacular settings at the Salle des Machines in the Tuileries Palace.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.019 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".