Stage Decoration in France, in the Middle Ages (Classic Reprint)
Stage Decoration in France, in the Middle Ages (Classic Reprint)

Author: Donald Clive Stuart

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-09

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9781331069966

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Excerpt from Stage Decoration in France, in the Middle Ages Miracles de Ste. Genevieve. Their Date and Place of Performance. Resemblance to the Miracles de Notre Dame in Their Treatment of the Scene in Hell. Setting of the Nativite. The Passion. The Resurrection; Longer Passions of the 15th Century. Evidence Furnished by Miniatures. Passion d' Arras. Hell Placed on a Level below Earth. Setting of the Play according to Journees. Passion at Rouen in 1474. Number of Scenes. One Level. Passion de Semur. Its Setting according to Journees; Different Levels in Hell in Michel's Resurrection. Idea derived from Greban's Passion. Description of the Scene in Hell. Terrestrial Paradise and Heaven. Scenes on Earth. Some Scenes in Michel's Passion; Setting of Provencal Plays. Stage of Three Levels; Pantomimes of the Fifteenth Century. Their Influence on the Indoor Stage About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

The Streets of Paris
The Streets of Paris

Author: Susan Cahill

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Published: 2017-06-06

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1250074320

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For the seasoned Parisian traveller or the novice looking to get off the beaten track Cahill provides a roadmap to parts of the city most visitors will never seeIn a city that is the destination of millions of travelers every year, it can be difficult to find your way to its lovely, serene spaces. Away from the madding crowds, the gardens of Paris offer the balm of flowers, tall old trees, fountains, ponds, sculptures, with quiet Parisians reading Le Monde, taking the sun, relishing the peace. These places are often tucked away, off the beaten tourist track, and without a guide they're easy to miss: The Jardin de l'Atlantique, out of sight on the roof of Gare Montparnasse. The enchanting Jardin de la Vallee Suisse, invisible from the street, accessible only if you know how to find the path. The Square Boucicaut, its children's carousel hidden inside a grove of oak and maples. Square Batignolles, the shade of the old chestnut trees an inspiration to the painter edouard Manet and poet Paul Verlaine. Hidden Gardens of Paris features 40 such oases in quartiers both posh and plain, as well as dozens of others Nearby to the featured green space. It is arranged according to the geographic sections of the city Ile de la Cite, Left Bank, Right Bank, Western Paris, Eastern Paris a lively and informative guide that focuses on each place as a site of passionate cultural memory.

French Visual Culture and the Making of Medieval Theater
French Visual Culture and the Making of Medieval Theater

Author: Laura Weigert

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-12-30

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1316412121

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This book revives what was unique, strange and exciting about the variety of performances that took place in the realms of the French kings and Burgundian dukes. Laura Weigert brings together a wealth of visual artifacts and practices to explore this tradition of late medieval performance located not in 'theaters' but in churches, courts, and city streets and squares. By stressing the theatricality rather than the realism of fifteenth-century visual culture and the spectacular rather than the devotional nature of its effects, she offers a new way of thinking about late medieval representation and spectatorship. She shows how images that ostensibly document medieval performance instead revise its characteristic features to conform to a playgoing experience that was associated with classical antiquity. This retrospective vision of the late medieval performance tradition contributed to its demise in sixteenth-century France and promoted assumptions about medieval theater that continue to inform the contemporary disciplines of art and theater history.