Staging Bianca Capello: Painting and Theatricality in Sixteenth‐Century Venice

van Eck, Caroline (editor) / Bussels, Stijn (editor) / van Kessel, Elsje (author)

Theatricality in Early Modern Art and Architecture ; 78-91

Art History Book Series

2011-04-14

14 pages

9781444396744 , 9781444339024

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444396744.ch6

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

the painting, an amalgam of ritual and theatrical behaviour ‐ azione teatrale, a theatrical action of unexpected proportions , Venetian life, thoroughly immersed ‐ in ritual , painting, showing the head and bust ‐ elaborately dressed woman, regally calm, looking at the viewers , individualized facial features, of clothes and jewels ‐ soliciting the viewer's attention , staging Bianca Capello ‐ painting and theatricality in sixteenth‐century Venice , changing role of women, in Venetian public ceremonies ‐ Edward Muir, revealing that their positions become marginal , theatricality, guiding people ‐ modelling of Venetian constitution and citizenship, to a petrarchan relation between a woman and a man , Bianca's dress, depiction in Pulzone's portrait ‐ as those of Venetian noblewomen at public celebrations , Bianca Capello's portrait, subject of a lively correspondence ‐ portraying the lady, and her Venetian admirer Francesco Bembo, patron and owner of the portrait , Scipione Pulzone's Portrait of Bianca Capello ‐ absence of idealization, detail in execution of clothes and jewels