Picture and counter-picture: An Attempt to Involve Context in the interpretation of Theatre Italien iconography

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  • Bent Holm
The article contains a number of examples of depictions of the French-italian commedia dell'arte fra the 17. century, put into an iconographic and mentality historical context aiming at an interpretation at two levels: On the one hand a reference to the selfrepresentation of the regime and on the other hand a derivation from the carnivalesque imagery which all together expand the understanding of the political satire in a grotesque direction implicitly contained in the pictures.
Translated title of the contributionBillede og modbillede: Et forsøg på at involvere kontekst i tolkningen af Théâtre Italien ikonografi
Original languageEnglish
JournalTheatre Research International
Volume22
Issue number3
Pages (from-to)219-233
Number of pages14
ISSN0307-8833
Publication statusPublished - 1997

    Research areas

  • Faculty of Humanities - theatre history, Commedia dell'arte, Carnivale, Ludvig 14., Theatre iconography

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