tableaux vivants
- plural of tableau vivant.
Example Sentences
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The passion play has three storytelling forms: narrative scenes with dialogue, oratorio-like songs performed by a large choir and tableaux vivants of Old Testament moments.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2022
It’s a method called tableaux vivants, or “living pictures.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2019
I’m very interested in the tableaux vivants: you recognise a scene from a Caravaggio painting and it comes alive as a moving image.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 21, 2017
Mr. Bonello and Ms. Deshaies scrutinized many paintings, including lesser-known ones, not with an eye to recreating tableaux vivants but in search of telling details: attire, poses, the quality of light.
From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2011
Others think with Dr Hermann Ulrici,8 that they grew naturally out of the increasingly pictorial celebration of the early Greek liturgy,—painted scenes developing into tableaux vivants, and these into acted and spoken interludes.
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn
