title: Theodore Géricault’s Living Picture ‘Raft of the Medusa’ in Scenography: Visual Experience of the Romantic Era
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metadata.value: Nikiforova, Larisa V.
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metadata.value: Zinovyeva, Anna M.
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metadata.value: 2024-02-29T19:55:28Z
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metadata.value: 2023-12
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metadata.value: Nikiforova, Larisa, and Anna Zinovyeva.“Theodore Géricault’s Living Picture ‘Raft of the Medusa’ in Scenography: Visual Experience of the Romantic Era”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Arts 13, no. 4 (2023): 639–663. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2023.403 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu15.2023.403
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44988
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metadata.value: This article demonstrates the connections between visual and the theatrical mise en scène,
  raises the question of the inclusion of a live painting in the theatrical narrative as a form
  of interpretation of original painting, and finally presents the diversity of visual experience
  of the era in which static images coexisted with the moving ones. For the first time Géricault’s
  painting
  was animated on stage in 1820, a year after it was exhibited at the Salon
  (W. T. Moncrieff ’s melodrama “The Wreck of the Medusa, or the Fatal Raft”, London). Then in
  1839 audiences
  saw it in Paris in a drama by Ch. Denoyer at the Théâtre Ambigue Comiq and in an opera by F. Flottov to a libretto by the Cognard brothers at the Théâtre Renaissance.
  Denoisier’s drama proved to be the most suitable for transfer to other stages, and from 1847 to
  1876 Géricault’s picture came to life at the Alexandrinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, and on
  other Russian stages until 1914. As far as we know, none of the Russian art and theatre historians
  have paid attention to the stage embodiment of the famous picture. In the works on the
  history of Russian theater, Ch. Denoyer’s play is mentioned, but no more than that. On the
  contrary, foreign researchers of the 19th century art treat with great interest the interaction of
  painting, theater, and new optical spectacles in a single field of visual experience, including
  such classics of visual studies as P. Virillo and J. Creri. But neither they nor others have touched
  the Russian material. The article fills the gap in Russian art history and presents an analysis of
  the contexts in which the story of the Géricault’s living picture aroused interest; it traces the
  history of the transfer of Géricault’s painting to the Russian stage basing on archiveal sources.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Arts;Volume 13; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: The Raft of the “Meduse”
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Théodore Géricault
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: tableau vivant
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: scenography
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: melodrama
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: visual experience
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Theodore Géricault’s Living Picture ‘Raft of the Medusa’ in Scenography: Visual Experience of the Romantic Era
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