Essays about: "Theatricality"

Found 2 essays containing the word Theatricality.

1. 1. Painting, Play, and Politics : A Technical Examination of the Painting Polyxena is Sacrificed by Jacob de Wet I (ca 1610-1675) and its Cultural Contex

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

   Author : Joanna Kiesler Svensson; [2022]
   Keywords : Technical Art History; Multispectral Imaging; Polyxena; Jacob de Wet; Dutch Golden Age; Theatricality;

   Abstract : The study departs from a technical examination of the panel painting Polyxena is Sacrificed in the Stockholm University Collection of Art, establishing the artistic process, level of ambition, and material choices by means of multispectral imaging techniques and elemental analysis. The artist, Jacob de Wet I, was both a well-reputed Haarlem-painter who specialized in small scale history paintings and headed a mass-producing workshop which supplied the low-end art markets of Haarlem and Amsterdam. READ MORE

3. 2. Fatal Aesthetics : A study on the theatrical representation of the public execution in the Islamic State's Palmyra execution video

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

   Author : Loes Hoogkamer; [2016]
   Keywords : Aesthetics; Public executions; Islamic State; Palmyra; Spectatorship; Arts and Architecture;

   Abstract : Since the rise of the Islamic State the world has seen a proliferation of public executions in which spectacle and theatricality have come to play an important role. Their propaganda has adopted an aesthetic style in which violence is openly displayed, celebrated and glorified. READ MORE