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-known for rigidity
-misinterpreted Greek and Roman culture |
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"The Prince"
-The means justify the end |
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-key economic figure
-becomes more important than farmer |
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| An example of the patronage system.. |
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| -Treat religious figures secularly (as human beings) |
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| -The study of Green and Roman (imitate) |
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| Galileo, Copernicus & Kepler all proved.. |
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| The sun is the center of the solar system. |
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| -Short pieces dipicting mythological tales. They were presented between the acts of full length plays and were often thematically related to the full length works they accomplished |
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-Imitations of satyr plays
-Subject matter=romance
-Characters are usually shepards & mythological creatures who inhabit the forests & country side
-NO PHALLIS AND A TAIL
-happy endings! |
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| Opera was developed here. |
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-text of opera, secondary to music
-basic elements
-Aria
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-established the supremacy of the aria
-began in Florence, Italy |
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-one of the great composers
-brought comic opera to the peak of perfection |
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-German composer who imposed on opera his ideas of monumental works based on legends and myths
-grand opera |
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-10 performers (7M/3W)
-play of professional artists
-traveling troops |
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-served as outlines
-improvised dialogue |
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| repeated bit of physical comic business |
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| founded by Francesco & Isabella Andreni |
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| Francesco's son who took over, but was never as popular |
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| Oldest surviving theatre in Vicenza |
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| -designed Teatro Olimpico |
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| finished the Teatro Olimpico |
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| -constructed by Scatnozzi |
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-designed by Giovan Battista Aleotti
-proscenium theatre |
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-most important element to designers
-got inspiration from Renaissance paintings |
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-Sebastiano Serlio
-tragic set: street w/ houses
comic set: common street
pastoral set: trees, hills, cottages |
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| back of the stage higher than the front (US/DS) |
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| most famous dramatic critic |
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| all characters behave in a way that is based on age, profession, sex, rank |
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| being true to life (no more supernatural/ghosts) |
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-connects work of art w/ past
-analyzes what kind of play
-"what is" |
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-argues for a certain point of view
-"what it should be" |
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-"David and Moses"\
-ceiling in the Sistine Chapel |
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| What did Petrach argue for? |
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| an emphasis on human over theological subjects and for the study of Greek and Roman classics. |
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| the sun, not the earth is the center of the solar system |
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| Where were the plays of the Italian Renaissance performed? |
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| Academies or for wealthy patroms |
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-Sacred representation
-based on biblical stories and lives of saints |
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-"Eccerinus"
-often cited as the first tragedy of the Renaissance
-Represents the story of the ruler of Padua |
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-"Paulus"
-subtitled "to correct the behavior of youth"
-plot: the plight of a student torn |
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| To what is La Calandria indebted? |
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| -indebted to plots and techniques popularized in Roman new comedy |
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-most famous example of a pastoral play
-Aminta, a shepard, is passionately in love with Sylvia, who does not love him. He believes she is dead, so he throws himself over a hillside, but survives |
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-most frequently produced drama today
-by Machiavelli
-depicts a gullible husband hoodwinked by his wife and her lover |
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| Identify Lorenzo da Ponte |
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-"Don Giovanni"
-libretto in it but never spoken that it is by him |
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| Identify Jean-Baptist Lully |
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| -the first master of French opera |
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| a foolish pedant who was always involved in neighbors affairs |
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| a cowardly, braggart soldier |
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| lazzo example usuing Capitano |
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| Capatano would get tangled with his sword which would emerge from his legs like a big 'ol penis |
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| manuscripts from the Renaissance put together by commedia actors which contain jokes, comic business & repeated scenes and speeches |
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| Which character used the slapstick? |
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| Pantalone's mask always had... |
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| Who does Pantalone become in "The Miser"? |
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| Premiere production at the Olimpico |
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| raucous area where people ate, talked and moved around |
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| large opening in the stage house of Greek Hellenistic theatres and large central portals of Roman theatre May have inspired Italian theatre designers who introduced the proscenium arch |
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| First designer to apply principles of perspective to the stage |
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| "Manual for Constructing Theatrical Scenes and Machines" |
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| "Six Books of Perspective" |
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| Kind of France's Italian minister who befriended and advaced Torelli |
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| Only unity prescribed by Aristotle |
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| -set forth a program for naturalism in the theatre. he argued that drama must adhere closely to the laws of nature as they were understood at the time |
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| argued for a theatre that would instruct its audience, especially in political matters and in the late 20th century there were several critics who would be considered prescriptive or didactic |
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