Digital Temptations: Virtual Walks through Festivals and Theatrical Performances in late 17th-century Vienna
Digital Temptations: Virtual Walks through Festivals and Theatrical Performances in late 17th-century Vienna
College of Arts School of Culture & Creative Arts
Date: Wednesday 20 November 2019
Time: 17:30 - 18:30
Venue: Yudowitz Room, Wolfson Medical School Building
Category: Public lectures, Academic events
Speaker: Rudi Risatti (Theatermuseum, Vienna)
Website: artes.hypotheses.org/
Co-presented by the History of Art Research Seminar Series and the Stirling Maxwell Centre Seminar Series.
This talk presents some of the most important festivities of the Habsburg’s baroque Vienna, including horse ballets, grotesque performances, magnificent operas and other similar events. The talk aims to allow a modern-day audience to re-discover, or at least understand, the “visual strategy”, i.e. by studying historical sources – both pictorial and textual – and by making use of modern virtual reconstructions.
Animated jumping horses, golden apples, grotesque monsters and some of the most popular masques of the Italian Commedia dell’Arte, will be – compared with other digitation projects by the international research group “art-es”.
This a free, unticketed event. All welcome!
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