Painting Music in the Sixteenth Century: Essays in Iconography

Abstract

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.