Painting Music in the Sixteenth Century : Essays in Iconography (Hardcover)

Contents: Preface; Introduction: Some thoughts on musical inscriptions; ’Some possible likenesses of Francesco Canova da Milano (1497-1543)’; The prodigal son at the whores’ music, art, and drama; A motet for Machiavelli’s mistress and a chanson for a courtesan; Mary Magdalene, musician and dancer; Mary Magdalene, mondaine musicale; Paintings of lady concerts and the transmission of ’Jouissance vous donneray’; Musical inscriptions in paintings by Caravaggio and his followers; Music in and out of Egypt: a little-studied iconographical tradition; Music in majolica; Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo’s Portrait of a man with a recorder; Tintoretto’s Music-making women at Dresden; Arcadelt’s Amor, tu sai in an anonymous allegory; The lutenist’s hand; An iconographical echo of the unwritten tradition in a Verdelot madrigal; Two paintings of ’concert scenes’ from the Veneto and the Morgan Library’s Unique Music Print of 1520; Lassio’s La cortesia Voi, Donne, Predicate: a Villanesca printed, penned, plucked and depicted; Valid and invalid options for performing frottole as implied in visual sources; Addenda et corrigenda; Index.