Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Striking the Stage; 1 Magic and Mimesis: La Calandria and the Idea of Rome; 2 The Artificial City on Stage; 3 Palladio, Scamozzi, and the Built Theatre as Enclosure; 4 The Medici Theatres, Political Aspirations, and Cognitive Autonomy; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Visual Experiences in Cinquecento Theatrical Spaces explores the performative aspects of early modern theatre architecture and design, explicating the aesthetic function of pictorial displacements, visual anomalies, and architectural paradoxes
