| Photo Information |
| Copyright: Joao Pereira de Faria (olissipo) (1105) |
| Genre: Places |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2002-05-29 |
| Categories: Artwork, Experimental |
| Camera: Canon Ixus II |
| Details: (Fill) Flash: Yes |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2006-10-21 10:05 |
| Viewed: 668 |
| Points: 0 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
I took this photo 4 years ago while visiting Parma.
In the majestic “Palazzo della Pilotta” (named after the ‘pelota’game which used to be played in one of the courtyards) you can discover the very beautiful “Teatro Farnese”. Going up the immense staircase to the “Imperiale” (a remembrance of the “Escorial”) you reach the portal entrance to the theatre (1618-19); almost suddenly you find yourself in the biggest and most modern performance room of this era.
A completely wooden architecture, painted in false marble, which is the work of the ‘Ferrarese’ architect G.B. Aleotti, known as “Argenta”, it welcomes us in a slightly desolate fashion, in order to evoke the atmosphere of the amazing stage performances of moving scenes and the naval battles which occurred in the stalls, raised to the form of a tub; the machinery, the decorations on the ceiling, the furnishings and the ducal gold are all missing, but the enormous space, the loggias, which had as ancestors the boxes? Of which the boxes being ancestors? The orchestra’s spot and the immense area dedicated to the representation reveal the intuition and the new organic distribution desired by the architect.
The theatre fell into a state of disrepair after the last performance in 1732 and was almost completely destroyed by Allied bombing in 1944. It was rebuilt in 1950.
This is a statue which survived the bombing but need a "box" to keep alive.
I tryed to capture the deep of the well vernished box (like almost all wood in that theatre) and the statue with the right arm weaiving like trying to show us that despite the state it is still "alive"! |
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