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Pb03 Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary
Tableaux
Hello everyone,
In the following context, what do you think the word "tableaux" means?
Is there anyone who experience the event or has knowledge about that?
Any comments would be welcomed.
It will be a great help for me.
Thank you.
pb
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SEMANA SANTA IN SEVILLE
Nowhere in Spain is Holy Week marked with quite such intense spectacle, solemnity and joy
as in Seville.
Every day from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, large, richly bedecked images and life-size tableaux
from the Easter story are carried from Seville’s churches through the streets to the cathedral,
accompanied by processions that may take more than an hour to pass. These rites have been
going on in their present form since the 17th century, when many of the images were created.
The processions are organised by over 50 different hermandades or cofradías (brotherhoods,
some of which include women), each normally with two pasos (sculptural representations of
events from Christ’s Passion).
In the following context, what do you think the word "tableaux" means?
Is there anyone who experience the event or has knowledge about that?
Any comments would be welcomed.
It will be a great help for me.
Thank you.
pb
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SEMANA SANTA IN SEVILLE
Nowhere in Spain is Holy Week marked with quite such intense spectacle, solemnity and joy
as in Seville.
Every day from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday, large, richly bedecked images and life-size tableaux
from the Easter story are carried from Seville’s churches through the streets to the cathedral,
accompanied by processions that may take more than an hour to pass. These rites have been
going on in their present form since the 17th century, when many of the images were created.
The processions are organised by over 50 different hermandades or cofradías (brotherhoods,
some of which include women), each normally with two pasos (sculptural representations of
events from Christ’s Passion).
Top answer
Artistic representations. Here's one, courtesy of a Google image search: IMAGE ____________________________________________ (Del, hope you won't mind my fixing your link - Tanit)
- Artistic representations.
- Here's one, courtesy of a Google image search: IMAGE ____________________________________________ (Del, hope you won't mind my fixing your link - Tanit)
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Artistic representations. Here's one, courtesy of a Google image search:
IMAGE
____________________________________________
(Del, hope you won't mind my fixing your link
IMAGE
____________________________________________
(Del, hope you won't mind my fixing your link
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Sorry, but the address doesn't work for me.
Strange...
Would you please check it once again and let me know ?
Thanks a lot~!
pb
Strange...
Would you please check it once again and let me know ?
Thanks a lot~!
pb
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tableau = three-dimensional, often life-sized, scene, usually with people, depicting a certain event.
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These aren't done with people though Philip - they're more like painted church statuary.
OP, if you will do a Google image search for semana santa seville, I am sure you will find many helpful pictures of the festivities.
OP, if you will do a Google image search for semana santa seville, I am sure you will find many helpful pictures of the festivities.
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Delmobile These aren't done with people though Philip - they're more like painted church statuary.
Right. They aren't live people, but rather figures representing people. Sorry I wasn't clear on that.
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Thanks Demobile & Philip,
I saw the image file and the definition.
So... It refers to some scene, not those figures or images ?
Because of the phrase "life-sized tableaux", I guessed that it might mean some images which had been mentioned in the previous phrase and didn't understand why the author wrote same things twice with different words, ie, images and tableaux.
I saw the image file and the definition.
So... It refers to some scene, not those figures or images ?
Because of the phrase "life-sized tableaux", I guessed that it might mean some images which had been mentioned in the previous phrase and didn't understand why the author wrote same things twice with different words, ie, images and tableaux.
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It would have made a little more sense if they'd used life-sized to modify images instead of tableaux. But yes, tableaux means the whole scene.
There was a craze in the 19th century for arranging "tableaux vivants." I didn't realize till reading the Wiki article that these were sometimes naughty.
There was a craze in the 19th century for arranging "tableaux vivants." I didn't realize till reading the Wiki article that these were sometimes naughty.
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