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Landscape and the Arts in Early Modern Italy - Theatre, Gardens and Visual Culture (Hardcover)
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Landscape and the Arts in Early Modern Italy - Theatre, Gardens and Visual Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
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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
century. During this period landscape painting emerged as a genre
and the aesthetic of designed landscapes and gardens was wholly
transformed, which resulted in a reconceptualization of the
relationship between humans and landscape. The importance of
theatre as a key cultural expression in Italy is widely recognised,
but the visual culture of theatre and its relationship to the
broader artistic culture is still being untangled. This book argues
that the combination of narratives playing out in natural settings
(Arcadia, Parnassus, Alcina), the emotional responses elicited by
sets and special effects (the apparent magical manipulation of the
laws of nature), and, the way that garden theatres were used for
displays of power and to enact princely virtue and social order,
all contributed to this shifting idea of landscape in the
seventeenth century.
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