STAGE DECORATIONS FOR THE VAULT SCENE (“ST. SEBASTIAN”)
to pronounce Fate’s supreme sentence upon the protagonist who had been prostrated by the gods.
Thus, for the first time, an attempt was made at a logical dissociation of the rhythmic and dramatic elements of the ancient theater. Years were
A BRANCH. SKETCH
to elapse before the German Max Reinhardt invented the monumental staircase and the proscenium of Lysistrata; and still a longer period until that same intrepid pioneer let loose upon the arena of a circus the hysterical multitude of a chorus of wild persons. Bakst was the first, not only in Russia, but in the world, to try to work out a stage and a conventional plastic language that was in accord with our modern conception of ancient art.
The Greeks who faced each other in the tragic dilemmas of “Hippolytus” and especially of “Oedipus” were no longer those classical personages
A ROAD IN UPPER SAVOY. DRAWING