DU2670mc 16th - 18th Centuries Scenography

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2011
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Jitka Ciampi Matulová (lecturer)
Mgr. Michal Konečný, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Lubomír Slavíček, CSc.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Lubomír Slavíček, CSc.
Timetable
Wed 10:50–12:25 K31
Course Enrolment Limitations
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Course objectives
Beginning in the late 15th century, rapid development of theater architecture, technical effects, and scenery started in Europe. This trend is closely linked with liking of highly spectacular theatrical genres (the continuing influence of the Renaissance intermedia, the emergence and development of opera and ballet) as well as with the life of the aristocratic courts (and from the mid-17th century with the development of public Burgeoisie Theatre). In chronological order and historical context of contemporary life of nobility, the lecture will show individual personalities of theater architecture and ephemeral architecture of the outside theater festivities, artists, stage decorations and costumes and personalities of the "inventors" of many visual and acoustic effects. The issue will be presented not only through surviving visual material and written sources in the form of direct records of events, but contemporary treatises dealing with theater architecture, iconography and form of theatrical scenery and technical execution of stage "miracles" will be discussed as well.
Syllabus
  • 1) fading line of the Humanist Theater: Andrea Palladio, Vincenzo Scamozzi
  • 2) the Illusory Theater line: the Medici court in Florence (Buontalenti Bernardo, Giulio Parigi, and their followers)
  • 3) Elizabethan England (Inigo Jones, John Webb)
  • 4) Venetian public theaters in the 2nd half of the 17th century
  • 5) The Court of Louis XIV (Giacomo Torelli, The House of Vigarano, Jean Bèrain)
  • 6) Central European production of Habsburg Court (Archimboldo Giuseppe, Giovanni and Ludovico Burnacini, the House of Galli-Bibiena)
  • 7) set design experiments of Filippo Juvarra
  • 8) The Castle Theatre of aristocracy in the Bohemian and Moravian lands from the 16th to 18th century (Schwarzenberg, Špork, Wallenstein and others)
  • 9) Josef Platzer and the Nostitz Theater in Prague
  • 10) The authors of contemporary treatises: Sebastiano Serlio da Bolognese, Barbara d'Aquilea, Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Guido Ubaldus, Niccolo Sabbattini, Joseph Furtenbach, and others
Literature
  • • František Černý (red)., Dějiny českého divadla I-III, Praha 1968, 1969, 1977.
  • • Jiří Hilmera, Perspektivní scéna 17. a 18. století v Čechách, Praha 1964.
  • • Vitruvius, Deset knih o architektuře, Praha 1953.
  • • Oscar G. Brockett, Dějiny divadla, Praha 1999.
  • • Andrea Rousová (ed.), Tance a slavnosti v 16. - 18. století, Praha 2008.
  • • Antonín Bartušek, Zámecká a školní divadla v českých zemích: materiály k vývoji divadelního prostoru a výrazových prostředků, České Budějovice 2010.
  • • Helena Spurná, Nástin vývoje inscenační praxe v operním divadle, in: Eadem (ed.), Hudební divadlo jako výzva, Praha 2004.
  • • Jan Port, Divadelní výtvarníci staré Prahy I-II, in: Kniha o Praze (Pražský almanach), redig. A. Rektorys, Praha 1932.
  • • Josef Furtenbach, Prospektiva. Základy kukátkového divadelního prostoru, Praha 1944.
  • • Pavla Pešková, Zámecká divadla rodu Valdštejnů v Čechách a na Moravě, Brno 2006.
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
written tests
Language of instruction
Czech
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