Inventing the opera house : theater architecture in Renaissance and baroque Italy /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Johnson, Eugene J., 1937- (συγγραφέας)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
• Θέματα: Θεατρική αρχιτεκτονική > Ιταλία > Ιστορία.; Αρχιτεκτονική, Αναγεννησιακή > Ιταλία; Αρχιτεκτονική, Μπαρόκ > Ιταλία

In this book, Eugene Johnson traces the invention of the opera house, a building type of world-wide importance. Italy laid the foundation theatre buildings in the West, in architectural spaces invented for the commedia dell'arte in the sixteenth century, and theatres built to present the new ar...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Ferrara and Mantua, 1486-1519
• Rome 1480's-1520
• Early theaters in Venice and the Veneto
• Sixteenth century Florence, with excursions to Venice, Lyon and Siena
• Early permanent theaters and the commedia dell'arte
• Theaters in the ancient manner and Andrea Palladio
• Drama-tourney theaters
• Ferrara, Parma, Pesaro, and theaters of Giovanni Battista Aleotti
• Seventeenth century theaters in Venice: the invention of the opera house
• Seventeenth century theaters for comedy and opera
• Teatro di Tordinona in Rome, Queen Christina of Sweden, and Carlo Fontana.