Setting for Comedy (Serlio)

Creator

Boeve, Ervina

Subject

Theater--History--16th century
Theaters--Stage-setting and scenery
Set designers
Scene painting

Description

1545--Italian--Sebastian Serlio--setting for comedy, inspired by Vitruvius, who said that comic scenes should "exhibit private dwellings, with balconies and view representing rows of windows, after the manner of ordinary dwellings."

Original Date

1545

Digitized Date

Mon, 07/02/2001

Original Media

Image

Original Format

image/slide

Digital Format

image/tif

Local Identifier

theaterhistory440

Coverage

Italian
Renaissance
Design
Serlio
Comedy
1500-1600