often intoned. The cessity of a recessed stage amphitheater, in which with a framing like that theseats rose in tiers, could of a picture. Such is in accommodate a large num- brief the development of ber of spectators. A thea- the modern theater. ter with a radius of three Palladio (1518-1580) was… … ing a large open space, the room could be only forty or fifty feet wide, and only six hundred to one thousand persons could citizen Scan- see and hear ozzi. It was to advantage. an attempt. to The accomino- reproduce the dations had to classic theaters be increased of Greece and by tiers of Rome,…
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