Visual Experiences in Cinquecento Theatrical Spaces

Jimena Berzal de Dios

Published by University of Toronto Press 2019

Visual Experiences in Cinquecento Theatrical Spaces

Jimena Berzal de Dios

In the series Toronto Italian Studies

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487518981

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About this book

Visual Experiences in Cinquecento Theatrical Spaces explores the performative aspects of early modern theatre architecture and design, explicating the aesthetic function of pictorial displacements, visual anomalies, and architectural paradoxes

Author / Editor information

Berzal de Dios Jimena :

Jimena Berzal de Dios is Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Western Washington University.

Reviews

Robert Henke:

"Javier Berzal de Dios’s excellent Visual Experiences in Cinquecento Theatrical Spaces persuasively rebuts received narratives regarding Italian Renaissance theatre architecture and design, offering a more complex, nuanced picture that includes the heterogeneous, sometimes messy experiences of actual spectators."

Kyna Hamill, Boston University:

"Berzal de Dios offers excellent comparative discussions on the illustrations that work well to demonstrate the book’s overall thesis – when it comes to the stage, spectators engage with a play of asemblances and recognizable buildings, not a mimetic ideal. Berzal de Dios’s emphasis on disunity in scenography reminds us that a city that appears on stage is not always a representation of the truth. Urban spaces condensed on the stage might imply an idealized locale, but we need to be looking at the stage with a different point of view. Berzal de Dios’s study reminds us that built environments on the Cinquecento stage were ephemeral, made for plural audiences, and meant to celebrate irregular viewpoints."

Sarah Ross, Department of History, Boston College:

"Visual Experiences in Cinquecento Theatrical Spaces is an illuminating contribution to the study of early modern stage designs, namely, the creation and function of material apparati and ‘spatial practices’ that determined the actual, lived experience of theatre."

Kristin Phillips-Court, Department of French and Italian, University of Wisconsin-Madison:

"Visual Experiences in Cinquecento Theatrical Spaces is truly an enlightening book. This study excavates both visual and literary evidence to bring us into early modern Italian theatres in a way that is rarely achieved in cross-disciplinary studies. This book will speak not only to art historians but also to literary critics, and scholars in performance studies."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction: Striking the Stage Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Magic and Mimesis: La Calandria and the Idea of Rome Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
2. The Artificial City on Stage Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
3. Palladio, Scamozzi, and the Built Theatre as Enclosure Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
4. The Medici Theatres, Political Aspirations, and Cognitive Autonomy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 216
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 35
- Other: 70 b&w illustrations
Keywords: Theatre architecture; theatre design; scenography; linear perspective; city views; early modern; sixteenth century; drama

eBook

Published: December 20, 2018
ISBN: 9781487518981