Product Description: Accompanying an exhibition in honor of Philippe de Montebello, Director Emeritus of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, this engaging book examines the influence of music and theater on the art of Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721). Fifteen major paintings and a number of drawings by Watteau that illustrate the connections between painting and the performing arts in Paris are explored...read more

Product Description: Catalogue from the exhibition held at the Maremma Art and Archeological Museum in Grosseto, Italy, presenting masterpieces of seventeenth-century Florentine painters. The exhibition's theme centered on theatricality, one of the most characteristic aspects of Baroque art, presenting life through dramatic events, poignancy and rich costumes and decors...read more

Product Description: American artists in the early decades of the 20th century found rich inspiration in vaudeville halls, revue theatres and moving-picture houses. The spectacular new visual attractions in these venues, emerging partly as a result of such technological advances as electrical lighting of the stage and the invention of motion pictures, emboldened artists to translate the arresting stimuli to their own medium...read more

Product Description: The late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are frequently labeled the age of theater. Throughout western Europe, the dramatic arts attained new heights of cultural prestige, political importance, and commercial success. This series of essays investigates the dialogue between the newly invigorated theater and the plastic arts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Book by Link, Howard A.