Italian Reinaissance

Question 1

What is Humanism?

Answer 1

Focuses on people rather than gods and emphasized the study of the classical Greek and Roman sources.

Question 2

What areas of innovations did the Italian Renaissance experience?

Answer 2

1) Acting (comedia dell’ arte)
2) Dramatic Criticism
3) Theatre Architecture
4) Scene Design

Question 3

The Italian Renaissance is not known for its…

Answer 3

Playwrighting

Question 4

Most plays were written and read for…..

Answer 4

Academies or Wealthy Patrons

Question 5

What are Intermezzi?

Answer 5

Short pieces depicting mythological tales presented between acts of full-length plays

Question 6

Developed out of popular court entertainment

Answer 6

Intermezzi

Question 7

Required spectacular scenic effects

Answer 7

Intermezzi

Question 8

More popular than the plays they accompanied

Answer 8

Intermezzi

Question 9

Disappeared in 1600

Answer 9

Intermezzi

Question 10

What are Pastorals?

Answer 10

A for that imitated Greek tragedy

Question 11

Subject matter was romance

Answer 11

Pastorals

Question 12

Usually, deal with lovers whore are threatened or at odds with one other

Answer 12

Pastorals

Question 13

Unlike satyr plays they were not overtly bawdy or sexual

Answer 13

Pastorals

Question 14

The action is serious but ends happily with the lovers being reunited.

Answer 14

Pastorals

Question 15

Opera

Answer 15

More emphasis on the music then the dramm

Question 16

Comedia dell’arte

Answer 16

Had its roots in traditional italian farce and roman comedy of Plautus and Terence.

Question 17

How many members for CDA?

Answer 17

10, 7 men, 3 women

Question 18

It consisted of improvised scene or…

Answer 18

scenarios, and outline but no scripted story.

Question 19

A lecherous, miserly old Venetian

Answer 19

Pantalone

Question 20

A foolish pedant who was always involved in his neighbor’s affairs.

Answer 20

Dottore

Question 21

A cowardly, braggart soldier.

Answer 21

Capitone

Question 22

A cunningly sly yet foolish servant.

Answer 22

Arlecchino or Harlequin

Question 23

The lover wore no mask and was eloquent in speaking love declamations.

Answer 23

Inamorato

Question 24

The lover’s female counterpart

Answer 24

Inamorato

Question 25

Her servant was beloved by Arlecchino

Answer 25

Columbia

Question 26

The cruel behavior who chased pretty girls

Answer 26

Pulicinella

Question 27

What did most of these actors do?

Answer 27

Played same stock characters there whole life

Question 28

What did these actors do with the characters?

Answer 28

Fuse their own personality with the characters.

Question 29

Using a repeated bits of comic.

Answer 29

Lazzi

Question 30

The actors wore what?

Answer 30

Traditional stock costumes so that audiences could recognize them. Had certain details to reflect their personalities.

Question 31

Italian Renaissance was staged where?

Answer 31

At academics which influenced the theatre archt.

Question 32

Innovations of this period were possible because...

Answer 32

The discovery of linear perspective, and interest in artistic realism.

Question 33

Was completed in 1584 at the Olympic Academy

Answer 33

Teatro Olimpico

Question 34

Designed as mini indoor Roman Structure

Answer 34

Teatro Olimpico

Question 35

Accommodate 3,000 had ornate facade to look like a street

Answer 35

Teatro Olimpico

Question 36

Five openings, depicting an alleyway

Answer 36

Teatro Olimpico

Question 37

Small theatre completed in 1588 at the Academia dei Confidenti in Sabbioneta

Answer 37

Theatre at Sabbioneta

Question 38

Has a raised stage with a panorama at the back painted in perspective

Answer 38

Theatre at Sabbioneta

Question 39

Small colonnade around a horshoe shaped auditroium

Answer 39

Theatre at Sabbioneta

Question 40

Considered transtion between the Teatro Olimpico and the Teatre Franese.

Answer 40

Theatre at Sabbioneta

Question 41

The most notable theatre of the Itallian Renaissance.

Answer 41

Teatro Francese

Question 42

Has raised horhsoe seating

Answer 42

Teatro Francese

Question 43

Orchestra could be used for additional seating or flooded

Answer 43

Teatro Francese

Question 44

Why was the Teatro Francese revolutionary

Answer 44

Because of the proscenium arch stage

Question 45

The proscenium arch hid from view the mechanics of the stage

Answer 45

Teatro Francese

Question 46

Proscenium arch allows for greater realism

Answer 46

Teatro Francese

Question 47

Opera Lead to...

Answer 47

The building of opera houses.

Question 48

An open area on the house floor from the side walls to the back wall where audience members would stand to watch.

Answer 48

Pit

Question 49

Lowest tiers of seating built into the walls that were from the upper class.

Answer 49

Boxes

Question 50

Upper tiers of seating with open bench seating and the least expensive.

Answer 50

Galleries

Question 51

What was most significant innovation in scenic design

Answer 51

Perspective Drawing

Question 52

What does perspective drawing do

Answer 52

Allows depth to be created in flat. 3-D

Question 53

What did Serlio introduce?

Answer 53

Perspective and recomended using angled wings.

Question 54

What are flat wings?

Answer 54

Wing on each side of the stage with a strop of border overhead that completed teh picture.

Question 55

Groove System

Answer 55

Allowed changing of scenery, by allowing wings to move.