Graphic Arts and Music
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.
Here is the pdf fair catalogue of Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur.
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.
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.
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 selection of entire works of art or details concerning music. All the photos have now their caption for reference.
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 technique, rather impressively.
Also, Goltzius included a self portrait in the right center of the composition. You can see him under the arch. He is the only character in the representation gazing directly towards the viewer.
An impression of this masterpiece is for sale on Catawiki this week!
Le Comte de Caylus and E. Bouchardon, Caricature portrait of Francesco Saverio Geminiani, Amsterdam Ton Koopman Collection
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 composer who settled in London and Ireland, but who gained international recognition for his compositions. The portrait is clearly charged, charicaturized, a characteristic that implied a close contact between the draftsman and the composer. The original drawing is by Edme Bouchardon (1698-1762) best known for his sculptures, and it was turned into print by Le Comte de Caylus (1692-1765).
You can get the catalogue here https://shop.getty.edu/products/bouchardon-royal-artist-of-the-enlightenment-978-1606065068#
A couple of years later, both in Paris and Los Angeles, was organizes an exhibition focusing on the French sculptor as there was no existing – much deserved – research on his oeuvre. A copy of the same etching finally appeared (it was unpublished before my article) and, despite the curator was not aware of my publication, he came to the same conclusion. that the portrayed is, indeed, Geminiani. (Bouchardon: Royal Artist of the Enlightenment, p. 165)
