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AUTHOR
Carlo Santoli
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Cabiria, opera d'arte autonoma
2020
Cabiria is ‘an autonomous work of art’, between aesthetical and stylistic peculiarities. In order to legitimately recognise these specificities, we should not exalt the high level of the technical cleverness mixed with ‘tricks’ or mechanisms of technological artificiality. On the contrary, we should – first and foremost – be aware of the identity of the movie, expression of the figurative art which combines painting, sculpture, architecture, theatre and cinematograph, constitutive nucleus of a poetics of the marvellous, created by d’Annunzio’s fervid fantasy and by the director Pastrone, invention – though in a real historical context – precise as regards the chronological limits, of forms,…
<em>Cabiria</em>, opera d'arte autonoma
2020
<div> <p><i>Cabiria</i> is ‘an autonomous work of art’, between aesthetical and stylistic peculiarities. In order to legitimately recognise these specificities, we should not exalt the high level of the technical cleverness mixed with ‘tricks’ or mechanisms of technological artificiality. On the contrary, we should – first and foremost – be aware of the identity of the movie, expression of the figurative art which combines painting, sculpture, architecture, theatre and cinematograph, constitutive nucleus of a poetics of the marvellous, created by d’Annunzio’s fervid fantasy and by the director Pastrone, invention – though in a real historical context – precise as reg…
Il paesaggio della Grecia nei Taccuini
2016
D’Annunzio does not dream, but really sees, leading an impressionistic and syncopated storytelling in which he portrays scenes of true reality. Léon Bakst (author of the theatrical productions of the Martyre de Saint Sébastien, La Pisanelle and Phaedra) similarly proceeds, drawing in some works, Narcisse (1911), L'Après-midi d'un Faune (1912), Daphnis et Chloé (1912), Helene de Sparte (1912), those figurative motifs that the poet notes in his travels, such as the intense green of nature, the austere red rocks, the arid and wild lands.