PAINTING THE STAGE

The term Gesamtkunstwerk indicates the ideal theatre where music, drama, dancing, poetry, and figurative arts coexist so as to creat e the perfect synthesis of these different art forms. This publication analyzes the evolution of the close bond between the arts sta rting from the nineteenth century, with the studies of Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Paul von Joukowsky, up to the early twenty-first century and across the entire history of twentieth-century art.