Theatricality in Early Modern Art and Architecture

Theatricality in Early Modern Art and Architecture offersthe first systematic investigation of exchanges between the arts,architecture and the theatre. The authors present many newinstances of the interaction between the arts, providing atheoretical and historiographical context for these interactions. * Offers the first systematic investigation of exchanges betweenthe arts, architecture and the theatre, not simply the influence ofthe theatre on the arts, and vice versa * Develops a theoretical and methodological model to study suchexchanges and interactions * Presents many new, hitherto unknown instances of theinteraction between the arts, particularly architecture, and thetheatre, and provides such interactions with a theoretical andhistoriographical context * Authors have opened up new ways of analyzing theatricality bothin the arts, architecture and the theatre