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9 unusual facts about Commedia dell'Arte


Château de Beaumesnil

The east and west facades are heavily decorated with carvings — windows have grotesque masks inspired by the Commedia dell'arte, intertwined letters "M" and "D" allude to Marie Dauvet Des Marets, wife of Jacques, Marquis of Nonant and daughter Nicolas Brûlart de Sillery, Chancellor of France while the shields of the Montmorency-Laval branch of the Laval family appear above the main doorways.

Chèo

Like the Commedia dell'arte, it often carries of a message of satirical criticism of the existing social order.

Commedia

Commedia dell'arte, a professional form of theatre that began in Italy in the mid-16th century

Danish Revue Museum

The logo was introduced by Bent From and is based on an engraving depicting the Italian Commedia dell'arte character Scaramouche.

Eugène Peters

As well as Towers of Babylon, his works regularly feature Pierrot, Harlequin and other characters from the Commedia dell'arte, as well as imaginary and real cities such as Antwerp and Turnhout.

Jeanne Quinault

Over a period of several months beginning in December 1731, Jeanne joined with a group of seven other friends to meet regularly and produce light-hearted, often parodic and satirical, theatrical entertainments, which they called lazzis, a term from the Commedia dell'arte meaning comic pantomime.

Joseph Lange

The characters were traditional figures of the Commedia dell'arte, and the music was composed by Mozart (K. 446).

Thomas Diafoirus

The character of Thomas Diafoirus and his father "monsieur Diafoirus", also a doctor in the play, are closely related to the "Dottore" character in the Italian Commedia dell'arte.

Thomas Leabhart

Copeau looked to remedy the 'ills of the theater' by turning to the golden ages of Greek theater, Noh, Kabuki, Elizabethan theatre and Commedia dell'arte.


10 Ways to End the World

The series is produced by Sveriges Utbildningsradio (UR) and was aired on Kunskapskanalen (in English: The Knowledge Channel) in December 2010 under the Swedish name Mänsklighetens sista dagar (Last days of Man) and on National Geographic and Arte in 2012.

A Jihad for Love

A Jihad for Love is produced by Halal Films, in association with the Sundance Documentary Fund, Channel 4 Television (UK), ZDF (Germany), Arte (France-Germany), Logo (US) and SBS (Australia).

Achille Cattaneo

His works were shown at the Venice Biennale (Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte di Venezia) in 1924, 1926 and 1928 and in Milan (Esposizione Nazionale di Milano) in 1925 and 1927.

Ana Sacerdote

In the mid-1950s, she exhibited with Carmelo Arden Quin, Martin Blaszko, Gregorio Vardanega, Virgilio Villalba, Luis Tomasello, and others in the Asociacion Arte Nuevo in Buenos Aires, organized by Aldo Pellegrini.

Anna Proclemer

From 1952 to 1955 Proclemer was a member of the stage company "Compagnia Teatro d’Arte Italiano", directed by Vittorio Gassman and Luigi Squarzina, then she was directed by Giorgio Strehler at the Piccolo Teatro of Milan and, starting from 1956, she worked extensively with Giorgio Albertazzi, with whom she also had a sentimental relationship.

Antonio Carangelo

He received his musical training at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève and the Accademia d'arte lirica in Osimo, Italy, and perfected his vocal technique through further studies with Mario del Monaco and Ettore Campogalliani, who was also the teacher of Luciano Pavarotti, Mirella Freni, and Renata Tebaldi.

Armin Jordan

Robert Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri, with Christoph Pregardien, Robert Gambill, Edith Wiens, Anne Gjevang, Sylvia Herman, & Hans-Peter Scheidegger; Romand Chamber Choir, Pro Arte Chorus of Lausanne; l'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.

Arte Sustenibile UNO

Arte Sustenibile UNO is an international art and design exhibition first established in Germany in 2008 at Bad Urach, close to German city of Stuttgart.

Baltasar Gracián

Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia (1647), translated as The Art of Worldly Wisdom (by Joseph Jacobs, 1892), The Oracle, a Manual of the Art of Discretion (by L.B. Walton), Practical Wisdom for Perilous Times (in selections by J. Leonard Kaye), or The Science of Success and the Art of Prudence, his most famous book, some 300 aphorisms with comments.

Boutros Romhein

He graduated in sculpture from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara, and in 1990 set up his own studio and sculpture centre, Arco Arte.

Captain Fracassa's Journey

A ramshackle theater company of Commedia dell'arte (Comedy of Art) is to roam vast and boundless territories to reach the court of Louis XIV.

Carlo Mazzone-Clementi

Clementi was the name of his mother and his grandfather, Girolamo Clementi, who was versed in the work of Paduan playwright and forerunner of commedia dell'arte, Angelo Beolco, known as "Ruzzante."

Cesare Siepi

In 1967 Siepi was Don Giovanni in a controversially received production staged by Otto Schenk and designed by Luciano Damiani that showed Mozart's masterpiece in the light of the commedia dell'arte, emphasizing the comic and ironic elements of this opera (conductor Josef Krips strongly opposed this production's concept).

Chantal Joffe

Berardo Collection Museum (Lisbon, Portugal), Museo Arte Contemporanea Isernia (Isernia, Italy), Museo d'Arte Classica (Zola Predosa, Italy), and The West Collection (Oaks, Pennsylvania).

Chicago Swordplay Guild

The primary sources for the Guild’s Bolognese Swordsmanship training come from five works from the 16th Century: an Anonymous text of c.1550, Antonio Manciolino (Opera Nova, 1531), Achille Marozzo (Opera Nova, 1536), Angelo Viggiani (Lo Schermo, written c. 1550 and published posthumously in 1575) and Giovanni Dall'Agocchie (Dell’arte di Scrimia, 1575).

Cildo Meireles

A retrospective of his work was presented at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York in 1999 and then traveled to the Museu de Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro and the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art.

Dancing with Time

Dancing with Time was produced as film for TV (f.ex.: ARTE and ZDF) and movie-theaters, as DVD and as book by Marion Appelt, with a preface of Renate Schmidt.

David Claerbout

CGAC Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (ed.), 'David Claerbout' texts by Stephan Berg, Rachel Kushner, Santiago de Compostela, 2003 (exh.cat.)

Đorđe Novković

In 1973, Pro Arte merged with another Sarajevo pop group Indexi, but the experiment lasted only several months.

Edgardo Coghlan

Coghlin’s work can be found in the collections of the Museo de Arte Moderno, the Museo de Arte in Sinaloa, Mitchel Museum in Mount Vernon, Illinois, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Alfredo Guati Rojo National Watercolor Museum and various universities as well as in private collections in Mexico, the United States, Canada, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Scotland and Chile.

Emilio Prini

One of the early contributors to the Arte Povera movement living in Genoa in the 1960s, Prini became involved in shows such as "Arte povera - Im spazio" and "Collage 1" curated by Germano Celant, art critic credited with grouping the artists together.

Enrico Reycend

Reycend, along with Davide Calandra, Leonardo Bistolfi, Giorgio Ceragioli and Enrico Thovez founded in 1902 the journal, L’arte decorativa moderna .

Fairness Foundation

In 2001, the Fairness Foundation also awarded Fairness Academic Research Prizes to Stefan Machura, Rainer Schadt and Mechthild Iburg, and Fairness Publication Prizes to Milka Pavlicevic (Arte/ZDF) and Margit Zuber.

Fernando Velázquez Vigil

In 1991 some of his works were selected as part of the XLVII Concorso Internazionale della Ceramica d'Arte Contemporanea, in Faenza, Italy.

Georg Klusemann

He is the protagonist of the personal documentary "Georg" by his daughter Caterina Klusemann, completed in 2008 for Arte/ZDF.

Guglielmo de Sanctis

Gioacchino Rossini; Aleardo Aleardi; Giacomo Leopardi; Alessandro Manzoni; Michelangelo; the Exposition of Milan in 1872; Bernardo Celentano; Exposition of Antwerp in 1885; Cesare Maccari; Francesco Podesti; and Agli alunni delle scuole d'arte applicata all' industria e alcune poesie.

Guglielmo Stella

He was artistic collaborator to the journal of La stampa in Venice; also along with Enrico Castelnuovo and Alessandro Pascolato, correspondent del Monde lllustré and of Tour de Monde of Paris, director of the Arte del Mondo Illustrato of Turin and spent some time in Paris.

How-to

One of the earliest how-to books was published in 1569 by Thomas Wight and entitled, A booke of the arte and maner, how to plant and graffe all sortes of trees: With divers other new practise, by one of the Abbey of Saint Vincent in Fraunce by Leonard Mascall.

Joel Casique

He has exhibited his work in galleries and museums in Venezuela, the United States, and Aruba; he has also participated in national and international fairs, including the sixteenth and seventeenth Ferias Iberoamericanas de Arte (FIA) in Caracas; the 2007 Latin American Art Fair in Miami; and the 2006 Feria Internacional de Arte de Bogotá (ARTBO) in Bogotá, Colombia.

John Bulwer

This manuscript shows that Bulwer was the first person in England to acquire and translate Juan Pablo Bonet's Reducción de las letras y arte para enseñar a hablar a los mudos ("Summary of the letters and the art of teaching speech to the mute") because it contains images cut and pasted directly from Bonet's book as well as commentary on the methods described therein.

José Luis Cuevas

These include honorary doctorates from Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa (1984), the Universidad Veracruzana (2004), the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (2007) and the Instituto Superior de Arte and the Casa de las Américas in Havana (2008).

Juan Carlos Bersague

He took a degree in Choral Conducting at the renomed Escuela Nacional de Instructores de Arte (National Academy of Arts Instructors) and at the Centro Nacional de la Enseñanza Artística (National Center for Artistic Teaching), both in Havana, with Mtros.

Karōshi

The French-German TV channel Arte showed a documentary called "Alt in Japan" (Old in Japan) on 6 November 2006 dealing with old age workers in Japan.

Keto and Kote

A review in Opera of its 2003 performance by the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre at the Rishon LeZion Spring Festival described it as "very much like a zarzuela in style with elements of commedia dell'arte".

Leonel Maciel

His work can be found in the collections of the Museo de Arte in Havana, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Managua, Nicaragua, the Modern Art Museum in Reijkiavik and the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City.

Malba

MALBA, the Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires (Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires)

Marcelo Bonevardi

Bonevardi's work has been collected by many leading North American and Latin American museums, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City; the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes and the Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires; the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade in São Paulo; and the Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City.

María Luisa Reid

Her work has appeared in collective exhibitions in France, Spain, Japan and Cuba with the most important of these being 300 Latino-americans dans l’espace in Paris, the IV Encuentro Iberoamericano de Mujeres en el Arte in Alcalá de Henares, Spain and the Viva la vida Frida in Havana.

Nina Serrano

Serrano has won international film awards, including the XXXIII Mostra internazionale D'Arte Cinematografica award for Que Hacer: What is to Be Done?; and the Kraków, Poland International Short Film Festival award for After the Earthquake: Despues del terremoto.

Nontsikelelo Veleko

That same year, her photographs were displayed in the exhibition titled ‘Olvida Quien Soy- Erase Me from Who I Am’ at the Centro Atlantico de Arte Mordeno in Las Palmas, Canary Islands.

Raffaele Frumenti

1983 Firenze - GALLERIA INTERNAZIONALE GAI Via Tornabuoni - Roma TARTAGLIA ARTE GALLERIA "NOCCHIA" Civitavecchia Roma - GALLERIA DI MARCO - Germania, Gladbeck -"Art Fontana Erika"; Napoli - ART GALLERY "De Gregorio"; Taranto - GALLERIA D'ARTE "Del Core"

1964 Rome - Colle Oppio "III° FIERA D'ARTE" "GEMELLAGGIO ARTISTICO" Rome - Parigi; Lago d'Iseo 1969 MOSTRA D'ARTI FIGURATIVE 110 PREMIO "PILZONE" CENTRO TURISMO Olivella

Schmiede Hallein

Kulturland Salzburg, city of Hallein,BM:UKK, WIBERG, FM4, Red Bull Music Academy, Kunstraum Pro Arte in Hallein, Carhartt Europe, MusicImport: CAD, Mackie und Aphex, Tourismusverband Hallein

Shuna Scott Sendall

Ne andrò lontana from Alfredo Catalani’s opera La Wally and Vissi d'arte from Giacomo Puccini’s opera Tosca, followed by Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas performed with Bryn Terfel and Ella Taylor & Liam Jones (winners of Radio 2's 2010 Young Chorister Competition) performed live on 10 December 2010 for BBC Radio 2’s Friday Night is Music Night.

Teatro Campesino

Teatro Campesino's early performances drew on varied traditions, such as commedia dell'arte, Spanish religious dramas adapted for teaching Mission Indians, Mexican folk humor, a century-old tradition of Mexican performances in California, and Aztec and Maya sacred ritual dramas.

Thomas Hauert

In 2010, the Belgian director Thierry De Mey created a film co-produced by European cultural television channel Arte, based on the ZOO’s work Accords.

Warringah Council

It features Dolphin supporters, a crested Wedge-tailed Eagle, the Flannel flower within a shield, and the motto, "Arte et Labore" ("by Skill and Labour").

Wolfgang H. Scholz

He works since 1992 for different European TV-broadcasters, for instance Bayerischer Rundfunk, the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, the Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen and ARTE.


see also

Adolfo Aguilar

In theater, Aguilar participated in the Commedia dell'arte Los chismes de las mujeres of Carlo Goldoni in 2000.

Pantaloon

Pantalone, a character in the Italian commedia dell'arte

Takilma, Oregon

Takilma is considered an alternative community and an informal artist colony, which is home to several artists, such as Commedia dell'arte Masks and Kendall Art Glass.