Inventing the opera house : theater architecture in Renaissance and Baroque Italy / Eugene J. Johnson, Williams College ; photographs by Ralph Lieberman.

In this book, Eugene Johnson traces the invention of the opera house, a building type of world-wide importance. Italy laid the foundation theatre buildings in the West, in architectural spaces invented for the commedia dell'arte in the sixteenth century, and theatres built to present the new ar...

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Main Author: Johnson, Eugene J., 1937- (Author)
Other Authors: Lieberman, Ralph (Photographer)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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