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Italian Reinaissance Flashcards

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What is Humanism?

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Focuses on people rather than gods and emphasized the study of the classical Greek and Roman sources.

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What areas of innovations did the Italian Renaissance experience?

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1) Acting (comedia dell’ arte)
2) Dramatic Criticism
3) Theatre Architecture
4) Scene Design

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The Italian Renaissance is not known for its…

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Playwrighting

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Most plays were written and read for…..

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Academies or Wealthy Patrons

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What are Intermezzi?

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Short pieces depicting mythological tales presented between acts of full-length plays

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Developed out of popular court entertainment

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Intermezzi

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Required spectacular scenic effects

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Intermezzi

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More popular than the plays they accompanied

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Intermezzi

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Disappeared in 1600

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Intermezzi

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What are Pastorals?

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A for that imitated Greek tragedy

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Subject matter was romance

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Pastorals

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Usually, deal with lovers whore are threatened or at odds with one other

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Pastorals

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Unlike satyr plays they were not overtly bawdy or sexual

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Pastorals

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14
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The action is serious but ends happily with the lovers being reunited.

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Pastorals

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Opera

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More emphasis on the music then the dramm

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Comedia dell’arte

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Had its roots in traditional italian farce and roman comedy of Plautus and Terence.

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How many members for CDA?

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10, 7 men, 3 women

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It consisted of improvised scene or…

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scenarios, and outline but no scripted story.

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A lecherous, miserly old Venetian

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Pantalone

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A foolish pedant who was always involved in his neighbor’s affairs.

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Dottore

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A cowardly, braggart soldier.

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Capitone

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A cunningly sly yet foolish servant.

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Arlecchino or Harlequin

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The lover wore no mask and was eloquent in speaking love declamations.

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Inamorato

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The lover’s female counterpart

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Inamorato

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Her servant was beloved by Arlecchino

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Columbia

26
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The cruel behavior who chased pretty girls

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Pulicinella

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What did most of these actors do?

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Played same stock characters there whole life

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What did these actors do with the characters?

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Fuse their own personality with the characters.

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Using a repeated bits of comic.

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Lazzi

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The actors wore what?

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Traditional stock costumes so that audiences could recognize them. Had certain details to reflect their personalities.

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Italian Renaissance was staged where?

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At academics which influenced the theatre archt.

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Innovations of this period were possible because…

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The discovery of linear perspective, and interest in artistic realism.

33
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Was completed in 1584 at the Olympic Academy

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Teatro Olimpico

34
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Designed as mini indoor Roman Structure

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Teatro Olimpico

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Accommodate 3,000 had ornate facade to look like a street

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Teatro Olimpico

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Five openings, depicting an alleyway

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Teatro Olimpico

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Small theatre completed in 1588 at the Academia dei Confidenti in Sabbioneta

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Theatre at Sabbioneta

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Has a raised stage with a panorama at the back painted in perspective

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Theatre at Sabbioneta

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Small colonnade around a horshoe shaped auditroium

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Theatre at Sabbioneta

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Considered transtion between the Teatro Olimpico and the Teatre Franese.

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Theatre at Sabbioneta

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The most notable theatre of the Itallian Renaissance.

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Teatro Francese

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Has raised horhsoe seating

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Teatro Francese

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Orchestra could be used for additional seating or flooded

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Teatro Francese

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Why was the Teatro Francese revolutionary

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Because of the proscenium arch stage

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The proscenium arch hid from view the mechanics of the stage

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Teatro Francese

46
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Proscenium arch allows for greater realism

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Teatro Francese

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Opera Lead to…

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The building of opera houses.

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An open area on the house floor from the side walls to the back wall where audience members would stand to watch.

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Pit

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Lowest tiers of seating built into the walls that were from the upper class.

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Boxes

50
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Upper tiers of seating with open bench seating and the least expensive.

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Galleries

51
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What was most significant innovation in scenic design

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Perspective Drawing

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What does perspective drawing do

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Allows depth to be created in flat. 3-D

53
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What did Serlio introduce?

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Perspective and recomended using angled wings.

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What are flat wings?

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Wing on each side of the stage with a strop of border overhead that completed teh picture.

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Groove System

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Allowed changing of scenery, by allowing wings to move.

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