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Lecture | Stephen Orgel ‘Real Places in Imaginary Spaces: Architecture, Theatre and the World of Jonson and Shakespeare’

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Inigo Jones, Design for a Knight's Costume at a Masque

Real Places in Imaginary Spaces: Architecture, Theatre and the World of Jonson and Shakespeare Stephen Orgel The architect Inigo Jones’s settings for the fantastic masques he designed for the Stuart court often have a specific, recognizable topography, anchoring what Bacon called toys, Shakespeare called vanities, Samuel Daniel called punctilos of dreams, in a very solid social and architectural reality. Increasingly, moreover, the masque façades are buildings designed by Jones himself. This lecture, illustrated with slides of Jones’s architectural and stage designs, discusses the intersection of theatre and architecture at a…

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Call for Papers – Shared Visions: Art, Theatre and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century Conference, Warwick, Feb 2012

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Call for Papers Shared Visions: Art, Theatre and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century Conference School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies, Millburn House, Warwick University Saturday 11th February 2012 10am to 6pm CFP Deadline: 15 November 2020 This one-day conference, held in conjunction with Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, will explore the connections between art, theatre, and visual culture in the nineteenth century. During this period, the ‘art of seeing’ challenged the traditional dominance of the written word. Vision, previously denigrated as deceptive, became considered as a universal language,…

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Call for Papers: International Conference Galli Bibiena Cultural Heritage

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International Conference Galli Bibiena Cultural Heritage Lisbon, Portugal 19th - 20th November 2010 The Bibiena are known worldwide for the excellence of their work, which is present in numerous museums, libraries and private collections. The members of this family have earned fame in the most important European courts, from the last quarter of the seventeenth century until the first half of the nineteenth century, and are a clear reference to the European Baroque and Rococo Styles. In particular, their theaters “alla italiana” differs in both its grandeur and in its…

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