Mendoza, Argentina, 1885–Buenos Aires, 1955
for his first book, Palacios de ensueño (Dream palaces, 1910),and working as a theater
Curator Barbara Drake Boehm looks at medieval representations of martyrs Saint Bartholomew and Saint Lawrence in honor of their August feast days.
90.61.2) Sometimes artists spare us the gory details, and the curtain closes on the theater
Chaville, France, 1897−Paris, 1990
He composed several plays for radio, wrote theater productions, and continued to
Strato Hide caption Similar to any other ancient Greek city, Aï Khanum had a theater
A traveling troupe of commedia dell’arte actors entertains a party of Venetians enjoying a summer holiday on the mainland. Such performances often ended with a minuet, depicted here. The dancing couple may be the lovers Lelio and Isabella (sometimes called by other names), the only actors in the troupe who did not wear masks
"Watteau, Music, and Theater," September 22–November 29, 2009, no. 24.
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Versace’s visions of costumes for the opera and the dance, all of which are pure theater
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Hellenistic capital, appointed with important civic institutions—a great library, theater
The Artist: Cagnacci was from the town of Santarcangelo—in the Romagna region of Italy, not far from Rimini. Following his local training, he spent time in the prestigious Carracci academy in Bologna, drawing from posed models, and then went to Rome in the company of one of the great masters of Baroque painting, Guercino (he was living with Guercino in 1622)
and emotionally engaging subject appealed to the Baroque imagination in poetry, theater
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element of water informs the whole Aldobrandini estate, from the semicircular water theater
Around 1960, more and more photography began to seep across the well-maintained borders separating the mediums of art.
dance, and the early 1960s also witnessed an explosion in performance, experimental theater
