Pieces and Pieces
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
Tag: Music
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 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
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 extensive art-historical collection of images of Northern and Southern Netherlandish paintings and drawings from the eighteenth and the beginning of … Continue reading Music Iconography in the Archive J.W.Neimeijer @RKD
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 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
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] Continue reading 2 Tempestas
Solitary hurdy-gurdy player
Giovanni Battista Franco (called il Semolei) (c. 1510 – 1561) [Oxford, Ashmolean Museum WA1863.5138] – ca. 1530 – 1561 So lonely (such a beautiful etching) Continue reading Solitary hurdy-gurdy player
Strings and Winds
Giovanni Pietro Birago (active c.1471/1474 – 1513) [Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, WA1863.1623] Nereid and two children playing musical instruments Continue reading Strings and Winds
