1st Edition
Landscape and the Arts in Early Modern Italy Theatre, Gardens and Visual Culture
By Katrina Grant
Copyright 2022
292 Pages
by
Routledge
292 Pages
by
Routledge
292 Pages
by
Routledge
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Landscape and the Arts in Early Modern Italy: Theatre, Gardens and Visual Culture argues that theatre, and the new genre of opera in particular, played a key role in creating a new vision of landscape during the long seventeenth century in Italy. It explores how the idea of gardens as theatres emerged at the same time as opera was developed in Italian courts around the turn of the seventeenth... Read more
Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1. Theatricality, a View from the Landscape, 2. Gardens of the Gods: Classical Revival, Intermedi, Early Opera and the Idea of Nature, 3. The (Singing) Figure in the Landscape, 4. Triumph over Nature: Machines and Meraviglia on the Seventeenth-century Stage, 5. The Theatre in the Landscape: Pliny to Pratolino, 6. The Garden as Stage, the Visitor as Performer, 7. Stages without Actors: Theatres of Sculpture, Water and Flowers, 8. Performing in the Parrhasian Grove: Green Theatres and the Academies, Bibliography, Index.
Biography
Katrina Grant is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Digital Humanities Research at the Australian National University. Her research focuses on the history of gardens and landscapes in Early Modern Italy, the visual culture of performance in the same period, and, the application of digital technologies to art history (digital mapping in particular). Her research publications include articles and book chapters on the garden history of Italy, history of emotions and set design, the Arcadian Academy and landscape in Rome, and artistic relationships between Britain and Italy in the eighteenth century.
