TY - CHAP
T1 - Dancing Statues and the Myth of Venice
T2 - Ancient Sculpture on the Opera Stage
AU - Heller, Wendy
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements. The authors are grateful to Prof. Akihiro Yamamura and the anonymous referees for their valuable comments. The work is supported by the Japan NICT International Exchange Program (No. 2009-002), and the second author is also partially supported by the China National Natural Science Foundation Programs under grant numbers 90718001 and 60973159.
Funding Information:
The authors are grateful to Prof. Akihiro Yamamura and the anonymous referees for their valuable comments. The work is supported by the Japan NICT International Exchange Program (No. 2009-002), and the second author is also partially supported by the China National Natural Science Foundation Programs under grant numbers 90718001 and 60973159.
PY - 2011/4/20
Y1 - 2011/4/20
KW - Amphyon, building an entire city with his lyre - his gifts as a statue, equally if not more impressive
KW - Dancing statues and myth of Venice - ancient sculpture on opera stage
KW - Francesco Cavalli's Mutio Scevola (1665) - with libretto by Nicolò Minato, dancing statues linked to a kind of musical language, the prophetic voice
KW - Museum, as theatre and problem of managing collection - on stage, of concern to Vincenzo Scamozzi
KW - Notions, about inner life of statues - intersection between singing and the plastic arts, final scene in Bissari's libretto for Francesco Cavalli's opera La Torilda
KW - Statue, of the famed Theban musician Amphyon - building the walls of Thebes, by animating stones with his lyre
KW - The Grimani and their statues on operatic stage - Grimani's gift at the Biblioteca San Marco
KW - Tradition, viewing art collection as service to the state - by Cardinal Giovanni Grimani (1506-93), a Patriarch of Aquilea
KW - Use of dancing statues in La Torilda - illogical affinities, theatre, music and plastic arts in Marino's poem of Baroque opera
KW - Venice's public statuary and the Grimani Family - patrician families, collection of antiquities, a social status and erudition
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U2 - 10.1002/9781444396744.ch8
DO - 10.1002/9781444396744.ch8
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84887031113
SN - 9781444339024
SP - 104
EP - 119
BT - Theatricality in Early Modern Art and Architecture
PB - Wiley-Blackwell
ER -