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Music Iconography at the Morgan
Here is a selection of images from the online database of the Morgan Library and Museum . The works on paper date from the 17th century. Enjoy.
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Amsterdam International Antiquarian Book Fair 2018 – Catalogue
Here is the pdf fair catalogue of Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur. Amsterdam_6-7Oct The fair will take place in Amsterdam at Mariott Hotel the 6th and 7th of October 2018. For more please visit https://amsterdambookfair.net/home/. Free entrace.
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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.
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(pieces of) Italian Music Iconography on show…
During my last trip to Italy I visited local collections – namely in Venice the Gallerie dell’Accademia and the Palazzo Cini Galleria, in Vicenza the Gallerie di Palazzo Chiericati, Villa Valmarana ai Nani with an incursion in the small Oratorio di St. Chiara, in Verona in the Museo di Castelvecchio – and this is a…
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Goltzius’ Self-portrait
In 1594 Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617) engraved a set of large plates with the Stories of the Virgin, also called “The Masterpiece”. The plates, 6 in total, are really big and in each of them the engraver explicitly imitates the graphic language of other great names of the graphic arts. In this case Goltzius copied Dürer’s engraving…
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Bouchardon and Geminiani
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 collection (TK01747), that I argue is a portrait of Francesco Saverio Geminiani (1687-1742), Italian born…
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