Italian Reinaissance Flashcards
What is Humanism?
Focuses on people rather than gods and emphasized the study of the classical Greek and Roman sources.
What areas of innovations did the Italian Renaissance experience?
1) Acting (comedia dell’ arte)
2) Dramatic Criticism
3) Theatre Architecture
4) Scene Design
The Italian Renaissance is not known for its…
Playwrighting
Most plays were written and read for…..
Academies or Wealthy Patrons
What are Intermezzi?
Short pieces depicting mythological tales presented between acts of full-length plays
Developed out of popular court entertainment
Intermezzi
Required spectacular scenic effects
Intermezzi
More popular than the plays they accompanied
Intermezzi
Disappeared in 1600
Intermezzi
What are Pastorals?
A for that imitated Greek tragedy
Subject matter was romance
Pastorals
Usually, deal with lovers whore are threatened or at odds with one other
Pastorals
Unlike satyr plays they were not overtly bawdy or sexual
Pastorals
The action is serious but ends happily with the lovers being reunited.
Pastorals
Opera
More emphasis on the music then the dramm
Comedia dell’arte
Had its roots in traditional italian farce and roman comedy of Plautus and Terence.
How many members for CDA?
10, 7 men, 3 women
It consisted of improvised scene or…
scenarios, and outline but no scripted story.
A lecherous, miserly old Venetian
Pantalone
A foolish pedant who was always involved in his neighbor’s affairs.
Dottore
A cowardly, braggart soldier.
Capitone
A cunningly sly yet foolish servant.
Arlecchino or Harlequin
The lover wore no mask and was eloquent in speaking love declamations.
Inamorato
The lover’s female counterpart
Inamorato
Her servant was beloved by Arlecchino
Columbia
The cruel behavior who chased pretty girls
Pulicinella
What did most of these actors do?
Played same stock characters there whole life
What did these actors do with the characters?
Fuse their own personality with the characters.
Using a repeated bits of comic.
Lazzi
The actors wore what?
Traditional stock costumes so that audiences could recognize them. Had certain details to reflect their personalities.
Italian Renaissance was staged where?
At academics which influenced the theatre archt.
Innovations of this period were possible because…
The discovery of linear perspective, and interest in artistic realism.
Was completed in 1584 at the Olympic Academy
Teatro Olimpico
Designed as mini indoor Roman Structure
Teatro Olimpico
Accommodate 3,000 had ornate facade to look like a street
Teatro Olimpico
Five openings, depicting an alleyway
Teatro Olimpico
Small theatre completed in 1588 at the Academia dei Confidenti in Sabbioneta
Theatre at Sabbioneta
Has a raised stage with a panorama at the back painted in perspective
Theatre at Sabbioneta
Small colonnade around a horshoe shaped auditroium
Theatre at Sabbioneta
Considered transtion between the Teatro Olimpico and the Teatre Franese.
Theatre at Sabbioneta
The most notable theatre of the Itallian Renaissance.
Teatro Francese
Has raised horhsoe seating
Teatro Francese
Orchestra could be used for additional seating or flooded
Teatro Francese
Why was the Teatro Francese revolutionary
Because of the proscenium arch stage
The proscenium arch hid from view the mechanics of the stage
Teatro Francese
Proscenium arch allows for greater realism
Teatro Francese
Opera Lead to…
The building of opera houses.
An open area on the house floor from the side walls to the back wall where audience members would stand to watch.
Pit
Lowest tiers of seating built into the walls that were from the upper class.
Boxes
Upper tiers of seating with open bench seating and the least expensive.
Galleries
What was most significant innovation in scenic design
Perspective Drawing
What does perspective drawing do
Allows depth to be created in flat. 3-D
What did Serlio introduce?
Perspective and recomended using angled wings.
What are flat wings?
Wing on each side of the stage with a strop of border overhead that completed teh picture.
Groove System
Allowed changing of scenery, by allowing wings to move.
