Back in 2014 I was asked to write an article for the Festschrift dedicated to Prof. Ton Koopman for his … More
Tag: Music
TEFAF highlights 2018
Pieces and Pieces
Social media are a great tool to help discover new things, and this is the (yet) short story of a … More
The Neimeijer Archive pt.2: notes on a portrait
The Neimeijer archival boxes contain mainly excerpts from auction catalogues. The works of art documented, belong to any age and … More
Music Iconography in the Archive J.W.Neimeijer @RKD
(…) In September 2017 Dr J.W. Neimeijer, director of the Rijksprentenkabinet from 1974 to 1990, presented the RKD with an … More
The plate and the painter: on a little discovery in late 2017
Countless are the ways music and visual arts meet. Here is the short account of what was recently discovered behind … More
Some cherubs drawn by Arent van Bolten (ca. 1573-before 1633) at the BM (inv. SL,5217.1)
Scipione Cerreto, “Della prattica musica vocale, et strumentale…”, 1601
Giulio Casseri (ca. 1552-1616) “De vocis auditusque organis…” 1601
2 Tempestas
Antonio Tempesta (1555 – 1630) Musicians and singers [Harvard Museum 61.2007 and 63.2007]
