Dancing Statues and the Myth of Venice: Ancient Sculpture on the Opera Stage

van Eck, Caroline (editor) / Bussels, Stijn (editor) / Heller, Wendy (author)

Theatricality in Early Modern Art and Architecture ; 104-119

Art History Book Series

2011-04-14

16 pages

9781444396744 , 9781444339024

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444396744.ch8

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

use of dancing statues in La Torilda ‐ illogical affinities, theatre, music and plastic arts in Marino's poem of Baroque opera , notions, about inner life of statues ‐ intersection between singing and the plastic arts, final scene in Bissari's libretto for Francesco Cavalli's opera La Torilda , statue, of the famed Theban musician Amphyon ‐ building the walls of Thebes, by animating stones with his lyre , dancing statues and myth of Venice ‐ ancient sculpture on opera stage , tradition, viewing art collection as service to the state ‐ by Cardinal Giovanni Grimani (1506–93), a Patriarch of Aquilea , The Grimani and their statues on operatic stage ‐ Grimani's gift at the Biblioteca San Marco , museum, as theatre and problem of managing collection ‐ on stage, of concern to Vincenzo Scamozzi , Amphyon, building an entire city with his lyre ‐ his gifts as a statue, equally if not more impressive , Francesco Cavalli's Mutio Scevola (1665) ‐ with libretto by Nicolò Minato, dancing statues linked to a kind of musical language, the prophetic voice , Venice's public statuary and the Grimani Family ‐ patrician families, collection of antiquities, a social status and erudition