The Spectacle of Space: Visual Experiences in the Early Modern Scenography of Italy

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Main Author:	Berzal, Javier
Language:	English
Published:	The Ohio State University / OhioLINK 2014
Subjects:	Art History
Online Access:	http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397156627

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spelling	ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-osu13971566272021-08-03T06:23:34Z The Spectacle of Space: Visual Experiences in the Early Modern Scenography of Italy Berzal, Javier Art History Through an interdisciplinary examination of theatre architecture and design in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy, my dissertation studies the neglected performative aspects of theatrical spaces, especially the complexities of audience experience. Studying period engagements with philosophical and aesthetic ideas regarding space, place, and setting, I show that artists consciously moved away from illusionistic naturalism in order to present spectacles that purposefully pushed their audiences beyond real experiences towards fantastic spaces. I thus challenge traditional interpretations, demonstrating that the goal of early modern artists was not the creation of an illusionistic and unified theatrical experience dominated by single-point perspective. My dissertation presents a thematic study of the heterogeneous practices of the period that examines displacement, artifice, the realities of construction, ornament, spatial paradoxes and other overlooked albeit ubiquitous visual and textual. The goal is not to simply present an inventory of previously neglected artworks, but to set forth an interpretation of the material that shifts the current academic discourse, which has anachronistically interpreted early modern stages according to values that were not truly palpable or systematized until the seventeenth century. Developing over recent re-evaluations of perspective in art history, as well as phenomenology, theories of performance, social history, and Italian literature studies, my dissertation reveals a world rich in experimentation where artists marveled audienceswith spaces that emphasized, to great effect, their very artificiality. 2014-09-15 English text The Ohio State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397156627 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397156627 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws.
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The Spectacle of Space: Visual Experiences in the Early Modern Scenography of Italy

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