Comedia dell arte

Artistic director Helgi Tomasson sees SF Ballet's 'Don Quixote' as a ballet version of Commedia dell'Arte: a type of dramatic improvisation popular throughout Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries. This kind of performance featured stock characters, deception, chase scenes, and physical humor. (Illustration: Commedia dell'Arte Figure, Maurice Sand)

Pantalone - Stock character in Italian comedy

Harlequin cloak is the most popularly known of the zanni or comic servant characters from the Italian Commedia dell'arte.

Commedia Dell'Arte Masks by ~Alyssa-Ravenwood Artisan Crafts / Costumery / Masks ©2010-2012 ~Alyssa-Ravenwood

A mímica não é a arte do silêncio, mas, sim, a dramaturgia do corpo. É isto o que afirma Eduardo Tessari Coutinho, ator, pesquisador e professor do Departamento de Artes Cênicas (CAC) da Escola

Arlecchino! Arlecchino is always a Commedia favorite. Traditionally he is a servant (zanni) to Pantalone, Capitano, or Dottore, and is generally accepted as the most intelligent of the zanni characters. He tries to trick his masters, but usually fails. In Goldoni's Servant of Two Masters his name has been changed to Truffaldino (roughly, "Little Trickster") and much of the action exists because he tries to outwith everyone and serve two masters at the same time. Food holds amazing power over…

"The Taking of Christ" - "A captura de Cristo" - 1602 - Óleo sobre tela - 135.5 x 169.5 cm - Michelangelo Merisi de Caravaggio A Galeria Nacional da Irlanda foi agraciada com o empréstimo da obra "A captura de Cristo" de Michelangelo Merisi de Caravaggio. A generosidade deve-se a Dr. Marie Lea-Wilson. Ao longo da história, muito poucos artistas provocaram mudanças tão radicais como Caravaggio em suas percepções pictóricas. A partir do momento em que seu talento foi descoberto, rapidamente…

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