DU1260m 16th - 18th Centuries Scenography

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2014
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Jitka Ciampi Matulová (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Jiří Kroupa, CSc.
Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: prof. PhDr. Lubomír Slavíček, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Art History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 14:10–15:45 K22
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Course is focused on theater performances and other kind of celebrationes as a part of noble representation in mentioned period. At the end student should be able to identify the personalities of benefactors, scenographers and other artists cooperated on the celebrationes, the development of the theater architecture and theater maschinery in the wider context of the art.
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
    recommended literature
  • Helena Spurná, Nástin vývoje inscenační praxe v operním divadle, in: Eadem (ed.), Hudební divadlo jako výzva, Praha 2004.
  • Oscar G. Brockett, Dějiny divadla, Praha 1999.
  • Antonín Bartušek, Zámecká a školní divadla v českých zemích: materiály k vývoji divadelního prostoru a výrazových prostředků, České Budějovice 2010.
  • Jiří Hilmera, Perspektivní scéna 17. a 18. století v Čechách, Praha 1964.
  • František Černý (red)., Dějiny českého divadla I-III, Praha 1968, 1969, 1977.
  • Vitruvius, Deset knih o architektuře, Praha 1953.
  • Josef Furtenbach, Prospektiva. Základy kukátkového divadelního prostoru, Praha 1944.
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
written tests
Language of instruction
Czech
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2015.
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