The Performing Venue: The Visual Play of Italian Courtly Theatres in the Sixteenth Century

van Eck, Caroline (editor) / Bussels, Stijn (editor) / Hermans, Lex (author)

Theatricality in Early Modern Art and Architecture ; 92-103

Art History Book Series

2011-04-14

12 pages

9781444396744 , 9781444339024

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444396744.ch7

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

frescoes, in Sabbioneta's theatre hall ‐ a category, to understand compared with decoration of backdrop of a stage , Italian society, of sixteenth century ‐ ‘theatrical’; Peter Burke dubbing it a società spettacolo , courtly theatres, not exclusively for performance of plays ‐ but as multi‐purpose halls , religious and civic rituals, and acts of government ‐ conceived as performances , humanists, their desire for theatre to become public ‐ Raffaele Riario, offering performances of classical theatre to citizens of Rome , agency, courtly venues of sixteenth century ‐ not just hosting stage plays, but performing through and by themselves , performing venue ‐ the visual play of Italian courtly theatres in the sixteenth century , images of viri illustri, history paintings ‐ as models, influence from collectivity to collectivity , theatres, resembling festive apparati ‐ ephemeral, expensive decorations, princely weddings, or state funerals , statues and paintings of gods, heroes, emperors ‐ courtly theatres tied into tradition of the viri illustri