Research in Progress
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Finally, the Master of the Roman Songbook
I am so glad the proceedings of the 2019 RKD Symposium Going South have been published today. Chapter 8 looks into the oeuvre of this unknown artist we have given the name of Master of the Roman songbook. There is a long list of people I have to thank for this piece. First and foremost,…
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RKD Studies: Going South
The proceedings of the 2019 symposium Going South : Artistic Exchange Between the Low Countries and Italy are about to be published. Chapter 8 is my paper on the Master of the Roman Songbook. Stay tuned for the official publication here: https://rkdstudies.nl/all-rkd-studies/
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A detail
It’s been a while since my last post, but things get a bit complicated with motherhood. Anyways, it has come to my attention today a beautiful drawing held at the Cabinet du Dessins du Louvre, namely inv 34508, Recto by Louis Tocqué (1696-1772), a very refined portrait painter. This drawing is titled Etude de main…
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Rosa’s lid
This fascinating painting is known to be a piece of a harpsichord lid, notably the flap covering the keyboard. Salvator Rosa, other than an extremely talented draughtsman and painter, was also a poet and a musician. I had the fortune of holding in my hands a manuscript of vocal music (Paris, Bibliotheque National, Music Department)…
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“Zen and the Art of Lute Maintenance”
Among the images collected by J.W. Niemeijer there is a stunning portrait of an unknown man stringing a lute. According to the inscription the artist’s name is also obscure, however, he might have been active in Northern Italy in the 1520s. Great care was dedicated to the depiction of the tools in the foreground. Particularly…
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A print and a drawing after Bononi at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
While browsing through the digital collection of the Rijksmuseum, I ran into two reproductions of a painting I was supposed to see in real life last year, namely the Genius of the Arts by Carlo Bononi (1569-1632) that was exposed in Ferrara at Palazzo dei Diamanti in a beautiful and rare monographic exhibition (14.10.2017-07.01.2018). A…
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A recently sold print.
Recently we sold a print rarely seen in collections, the “Christ and his disciples on the way to Emmaus”, engraved by Domenico Vito, monaco Vallombrosano (fl. 1574-1578). This composition is a mirrored smaller copy from another engraving made by Philips Galle (1537-1612) in 1571, likely after a painting by Pieter Bruegel the elder (1526/30-1569) [New…
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Veronese docet.
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 composition is echoed in numerous works by artists worldwide who took inspiration from Veronese’s painting…
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MI at Bonhams’auctions – a selection
A selection of works of art with auctioned at Bonhams throughtout the late years. The images are drawn from their online catalogues. This gallery will be updated with more images soon.
Anna Bianco 