Dreaming with Open Eyes : Opera, Aesthetics, and Perception in Arcadian Rome /

"Dreaming with Open Eyes examines visual symbolism in late seventeenth-century Italian opera, contextualizing the genre amid the broad ocularcentric debates emerging at the crossroads of the early modern period and the Enlightenment. Ayana O. Smith re-evaluates significant aspects of the Arcadi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Smith, Ayana O., 1973- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Scarlatti, Alessandro, > 1660-1725. > Statira.
Pollarolo, Carlo Francesco, > approximately 1653-1723. > Forza della virtù.
Symbolism in opera.
Opera.
HISTORY / Europe / Italy
MUSIC / Printed Music / Vocal
MUSIC / Lyrics
MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Voice
Opera > Italie > 17e siecle > Philosophie et esthetique.
Opera > Italie > 17e siecle.
Opera > Italy > 17th century > Philosophy and aesthetics.
Opera > Italy > 17th century.
Italy.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Founding Arcadia : the aesthetics of verisimilitude and Buon gusto
  • Performing L'Endimione : a history and reappraisal of Guidi's Favola pastorale
  • Reading the classics : intellectual and cultural resonances in Gravina's Discorso sopra L'Endimione (1691; publ. 1692)
  • Reconciling icon, mythos, and tupos : the role of images in L'Endimione?
  • Believing in opera : visual modes in Alessandro Scarlatti's La Statira (Rome, 1690)
  • Deceiving the eye : mirror, statue, and stone in Carlo Francesco Pollarolo's La forza della virtù (Venice, 1693)
  • Epilogue, constructing gender and politics : Queen Christina's image.

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