{"id":5254,"date":"2007-09-08T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-08T18:47:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-09-06T19:08:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T17:08:15","slug":"el-titella-occident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teiamoner.net\/en\/el-titella-occident\/","title":{"rendered":"The puppet in the West"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nPuppets are special. The puppet<\/span><\/div>\n

The puppet in the West<\/span><\/div>\n

\n<\/div>\n
\nWEST<\/b><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nThe story of the puppets and the
\nWestern world begins in Greece and continues in Rome and then moves to
\nEurope and the rest of the world.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nIn Greece the
\npuppets with the theater of actors, but relegated to a minor art. The
\nGreece's first known reference dates back to 422 BC Xenophon
\nexplains the visit of a puppeteer from Syracuse to the house of the rich Athenian
\nCallias. The characteristic of the puppet theater of the time is that
\nwas made by itinerant puppeteers and was mostly used for
\n entertaining select circles of citizens, though they did too
\nperformances in public squares. The first puppeteer known to the
\nhis name was Photino and he used wire puppets.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nThe Romans with theirs
\nThe manipulated figures were taken to the peninsula
\nitalics. In Rome, puppets were street fun, which they weren't
\nthey could always be at peace with the censorship and repression of the empire. too
\n Roman priests used religious figures with mechanisms and
\ntubes to speak through them in the village. When the Roman Empire fell
\nin the 5th century AD, Christianity was the official religion. The
\npuppeteers performed in the streets and squares, and al
\nnot being able to master these little figures, the church used them
\nfor your benefit. At first the image of Christ was a lamb,
\nbut about the seventh century, he began to represent himself as a person. I
\nthis is where the first religious articulated figures appear, in the
\n churches of the Middle Ages.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nThere are two examples that have
\nsurvived to our day: The Christ of the town of Limpias (Santander),
\n which moves the eyelids, lips, eyes and changes the expression of the
\nface, and the Christ of Burgos, with movable head and arms and a skin
\nelastic as that of a person.There is also the reference in France of the
\narticulated images of the Virgin Mary, the Little Marys, hence the name
\n of a puppet.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nIn the Middle Ages they were used
\nthe wire puppets and the iron puppets, which were tied to the
\nknees and moved with their legs. Later the
\n glove puppets, and the functions were performed in theaters in the form of
\ncastle, hence the derivation of castellet.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nAlso from the 14th century
\nthey began to have importance in Europe, the automata or theaters
\nmechanics, almost always related to Christmas festivities. This one
\ntechnique emerged in antiquity, took a great time at this time
\nperfection. We cannot stop talking about the ventriloquism that is of origin
\nantic. Traces of Egyptian art and Hebrew archeology are found.
\nEurycles of Athens managed to be the most famous and, therefore, the
\nGreek ventriloquists were called eurycleids, and also
\nengastr\u00edmanteis, that is, prophets of the belly. In France, the first
\nventriloquist known as such was Louis Brabant, raised by the king
\nFrancisco I, in century XVI. In the first half of the seventeenth century, the
\nKing Henry and King Charles I had a counselor, the Whisperer
\n(= whisperer). The technique was perfected in the 18th century. Also the
\n ventriloquism was known and practiced in India and China. In Europe i
\nin the United States, ventriloquism takes its place in the United States
\npopular entertainment. <\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nFrom the seventeenth century they were
\npuppets arose that by their popularity managed to be fixed
\n forever within the history of universal culture. We have the Punch
\nand Judy English, French Guinyol, Italian Pulcinella, Puppet
\nCatalan\u2026<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\n<\/a>ITALY<\/b><\/div>\n
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