B004591 - LABORATORY OF EXEGESIS AND ARCHITECTURAL SURVEY THEATRE BUILDING

Italian.

The appreciation of historical theaters of Ancient Regime.

1) S. MAZZONI, Nuove considerazioni sull’iconologia del teatro di Sabbioneta, in Studi e testimonianze in onore di Ferruccio Marotti, vol. III. Lo spettacolo dall’Umanesimo al Barocco. La Commedia dell’Arte, edited by G. Di Palma, L. Mariti, L. Tinti, V. Valentini, «Biblioteca teatrale», n.s. (2011) [ma 2013], nn. 97-98, pp. 99-136;
2) S. MAZZONI, «Col solito stipendio di Sua Altezza». Appunti sui Gonzaga e la Commedia dell’Arte, in «Commedia dell’Arte. Annuario Internazionale», III (2010), pp. 3-18.

The individual acquisition of a critical capacity in respect of the history of the Italian theatres in 16th century.

The laboratory is intended for those students taking the “Storia del teatro e dello spettacolo” course given this year by Prof. Stefano Mazzoni.

An on site contextual and multilinear approach to the theatre of Vincenzo Scamozzi.

The organization of the study trip will be agreed on between teacher and students.

Oral test. The student will be examined on the course contents and on the required readings.

A study trip. The Theatre of Sabbioneta is the only Sixteenth-Century Court Theatre still in existence. That theatre was built between 1588 and 1590 by the architect-scenographer Vincenzo Scamozzi for the Lord of Sabbioneta, Vespasiano Gonzaga Colonna.
A space full of ‘signs’ of the Sixteenth-Century ephemeral, as well as of allegories and symbols. An Imperial iconographic ‘machine’ devoted to Rodolfo II, to the mith of Rome and to Euhemerism.