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Visual Experiences in Cinquecento Theatrical Spaces / Jimena Berzal de Dios.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Toronto Italian StudiesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]Copyright date: 2019Description: 1 online resource (216 p.) : 70 b&w illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781487503888
  • 9781487518981
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 792.094509031 23/eng/20230216
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Striking the Stage -- 1. Magic and Mimesis: La Calandria and the Idea of Rome -- 2. The Artificial City on Stage -- 3. Palladio, Scamozzi, and the Built Theatre as Enclosure -- 4. The Medici Theatres, Political Aspirations, and Cognitive Autonomy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Through an interdisciplinary examination of sixteenth-century theatre, Visual Experiences in Cinquecento Theatrical Spaces studies the performative aspects of the early modern stage, paying special attention to the overlooked complexities of audience experience. Examining the period’s philosophical and aesthetic ideas about space, place, and setting, the book shows how artists consciously moved away from traditional representations of real spaces on stage, instead providing their audiences with more imaginative and collaborative engagements that were untethered by strict definitions of naturalism. In this way, the book breaks with traditional interpretations of early modern staging techniques, arguing that the goal of artists in this period was not to cater to a single privileged viewer through the creation of a naturalistically unified stage but instead to offer up a complex multimedia experience that would captivate a diverse assembly of theatre-goers.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Striking the Stage -- 1. Magic and Mimesis: La Calandria and the Idea of Rome -- 2. The Artificial City on Stage -- 3. Palladio, Scamozzi, and the Built Theatre as Enclosure -- 4. The Medici Theatres, Political Aspirations, and Cognitive Autonomy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Through an interdisciplinary examination of sixteenth-century theatre, Visual Experiences in Cinquecento Theatrical Spaces studies the performative aspects of the early modern stage, paying special attention to the overlooked complexities of audience experience. Examining the period’s philosophical and aesthetic ideas about space, place, and setting, the book shows how artists consciously moved away from traditional representations of real spaces on stage, instead providing their audiences with more imaginative and collaborative engagements that were untethered by strict definitions of naturalism. In this way, the book breaks with traditional interpretations of early modern staging techniques, arguing that the goal of artists in this period was not to cater to a single privileged viewer through the creation of a naturalistically unified stage but instead to offer up a complex multimedia experience that would captivate a diverse assembly of theatre-goers.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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