Landscape and the Arts in Early Modern Italy
Theatre, Gardens and Visual Culture
Series: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 1 December 2025
- ISBN 9781041181941
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages292 pages
- Size 246x174 mm
- Language English 700
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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.
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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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Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1. Theatricality, a View from the Landscape, 2. Gardens of the Gods: Classical Revival, Intermedi, Early Opera and the Idea of Nature, 3. The (Singing) Figure in the Landscape, 4. Triumph over Nature: Machines and Meraviglia on the Seventeenth-century Stage, 5. The Theatre in the Landscape: Pliny to Pratolino, 6. The Garden as Stage, the Visitor as Performer, 7. Stages without Actors: Theatres of Sculpture, Water and Flowers, 8. Performing in the Parrhasian Grove: Green Theatres and the Academies, Bibliography, Index.
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