Skip to content

Anna Bianco

Graphic Arts and Music

  • Home
  • CV
  • publications

Category: Discoveries

Discoveries

Trevisani reworked

4 November 2021 an_bi

The above drawing is for sale at Bubb Kuyper’s 75 upcoming auction as lot 5120. It is presented as Anonymous from the late 17th to- beginning of the 18th century. As the images below show, it is a sketch inspired … Continue reading Trevisani reworked

Before I forget, Discoveries

A “walking man” that has lost his “cello”.

7 May 202117 May 2021 an_bi

Here is a wonderful sculpture at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (inv. BK-16083): it represents a walking man with a raised left arm and the right protrunding outwards. The description of the item in the museum’s website reads: De man staat … Continue reading A “walking man” that has lost his “cello”.

Before I forget, Discoveries, Research in ProgressLeave a comment

Veronese docet.

29 October 201831 October 2018 an_bi

Besides facing the legendary Gioconda in Paris at the Louvre, the Marriage at Cana by Veronese (1528-1588) – way more funny to behold, and definitely much bigger – served as iconographic source for many musical companies from thereafter. The iconic … Continue reading Veronese docet.

Discoveries

Bouchardon and Geminiani

3 April 20183 April 2018 an_bi

Back in 2014 I was asked to write an article for the Festschrift dedicated to Prof. Ton Koopman for his 70th birthday (ed. Albert Clement, Studies in Baroque, Butz Verlag 2014). I wrote a piece on one etching in his … Continue reading Bouchardon and Geminiani

Discoveries, Research in Progress

Pieces and Pieces

2 March 201813 March 2018 an_bi

Social media are a great tool to help discover new things, and this is the (yet) short story of a painting that I saw for the first time on Facebook. It is a bust portrait of a man, seen from … Continue reading Pieces and Pieces

Before I forget, Discoveries

The Neimeijer Archive pt.2: notes on a portrait

13 February 201813 March 2018 an_bi

The Neimeijer archival boxes contain mainly excerpts from auction catalogues. The works of art documented, belong to any age and are realized with any technique, from painting to print, from drawing to sculpture. Today, while working on files with men … Continue reading The Neimeijer Archive pt.2: notes on a portrait

Before I forget, Discoveries

The frontispiece of Il Colombo

19 January 201812 March 2018 an_bi

Il Colombo overo l’India riscoperta, is a ‘dramma per musica’ written by cardinal Pietro Ottoboni in 1690 [link to Googlebook], published under the pseudonym of Crateo Pradelini (anagram of Cardinal Pietro). As one reads on the title­page ‘da rappresentarsi al … Continue reading The frontispiece of Il Colombo

Before I forget, Discoveries, Events

The plate and the painter: on a little discovery in late 2017

19 December 20177 January 2019 an_bi

Countless are the ways music and visual arts meet. Here is the short account of what was recently discovered behind a painting on copper.* This tale begins at the beginning of last summer, in June, on my trip back from … Continue reading The plate and the painter: on a little discovery in late 2017

Follow Anna Bianco on WordPress.com

Useful links

  • Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur
  • Fondazione Memofonte
  • Griselda Online
  • METmuseum on Printing
  • RKD

Tags

Antiquariaat van der Steur Artists books Catalogue collection concert Copper Den Haag Design details discovery drawings fair Flemish funny Italian J.W.Niemeijer lute Music Music iconography old masters painting portrait printing prints religion research RKD Rome The Hague

FB feed AvdS

FB feed AvdS
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Follow Following
    • Anna Bianco
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Anna Bianco
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...