Angle frame stage

At the beginning of the 16th century, the angle frame stage was created in the course of the rise of permanently equipped theaters in Italy and France . It consists of a relatively narrow play area, behind which there is a slightly sloping decorative area with perspective painting.

According to the traditional theater tradition and its genres, there were the Scena Tragica (stage design for tragedy ), Comica (stage design for comedy ) and Satyrica (stage design for the pastoral idylls derived from the ancient satyr play ), with the tragic stage set being mansions, the comic town houses and the satyrical grottos , Forests and other forms of landscape.

The angular frame stage is closely based on the development of painting and architecture at the time (see central perspective , Chiaroscuro ) and for the first time creates a systematic picture order of the room for the theater scene. Its successor is the baroque stage set . The set designer and architect Sebastiano Serlio (1475–1554) was its most important advocate.