Ballet technique, like other classical Baroque figurative arts, favored symmetry, dynamic balance, and the harmony of the entire body.
The contemporary interest in fairy tales and ghost stories filled literature, the theater
Historic paper dolls from the Drawings and Prints collection tell a story of conspicuous consumption and evolving social values.
Scene 6, from Jack and the Giant Killer, Scenes for a Toy Theater, 1870–90.
Félix Vallotton (1865–1925) chronicled the political and social upheavals of fin-de-siècle Paris like no other artist of his generation. In darkly suggestive paintings and graphically spare prints, he lampooned the bourgeoisie with acerbic wit and laid bare the turmoil of Vallotton’s Vallotton’s
Box Seats at the Theater, the Gentleman and the Lady (La loge de Théâtre, le Monsieur
describes no. 65 in the 1879 Impressionist exhibition as a ballet rehearsal in a theater
Actor Telly Leung, known for his work on Glee and star of the upcoming Broadway production of Allegiance, takes visitors on a tour of his favorite works of art in the Museum as he gains inspiration for his performance at the Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month Celebration on May 22.
The Oriental Theater was only blocks away from the Art Institute of Chicago, and
A large facet of a genre scene’s appeal was the opportunity it afforded to gaze into a private interior and to identify with the values expressed by the subject.
The former, populated by stock characters from comic theater, contains in the characters
Although [Babylon] was not among the oldest cities in this part of the world, in ancient Mesopotamian mythology it came to be seen as the first city, made at the creation of the world …
The older city survived, and the presence of a Greek-style theater and other discoveries
The Artist: Castiglione’s artistic sensibility was deeply impacted by Flemish painters active in Genoa, the Italian port city where he was born in 1609. Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) worked in Genoa around 1606 and Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641) arrived in 1621, opening a studio that Castiglione quickly joined
light, ancient architecture in the distance, and shepherd’s costume (inflected by theater
This work depicts the triumphal procession of the Roman general Gaius Marius, in his chariot, with the defeated African king Jugurtha, in chains, walking before him, an event that took place in 104 B.C
The painting is one in a series that acted as a kind of political theater in the
How Cristofori’s invention gave a new voice to the harpsichord.
really soft, soft moments that drew the audience in, that brought a hush over the theater
