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Zusatztext Echoing Helicon cogently argues for the symbolic centrality of music in the Este studioli and in the construction of their patrons' identity, enriching our understanding of Renaissance court culture. Informationen zum Autor Tim Shephard is a Lecturer in Musicology at the University of Sheffield, and also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Music, Gender and Identity, University of Huddersfield. His research concerns music, identity, and visual culture at the courts of Renaissance Italy, and has appeared in journals including Renaissance Quarterly and Renaissance Studies. He is co-editor of the Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture. Klappentext In the construction of a private princely identity before the eyes of a select public in the study rooms of Italian Renaissance rulers, ideals of sober recreation met with leisured reality. Echoing Helicon reconstructs, through the interpretation of painted and intarsia decoration, the roles played by music in such settings. Zusammenfassung In the construction of a private princely identity before the eyes of a select public in the study rooms of Italian Renaissance rulers, ideals of sober recreation met with leisured reality. Echoing Helicon reconstructs, through the interpretation of painted and intarsia decoration, the roles played by music in such settings. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Introduction Chapter I - Music and Identity in the Studiolo The Studiolo "Type" Identity and Self-Fashioning Music in the Studiolo The Protagonists Chapter II - Leonello and the Erotics of Song The Belfiore Studiolo: Muses and Music Euterpe's Seductive Harmonies Eros as Ovidian Muse Leonello's Musical Poetics Pietrobono, Companion of Princes Chapter III - Isabella and the Decorum of Voice Making Isabella's Studiolo: A Summary Voice and Decorum Voice and Legitimacy Minervan Equivocations Voice and Agency Chapter IV - Alfonso and the Eloquence of Bacchus Making Alfonso's Studiolo: A Summary Music and Landscape Trouble on Parnassus: Bacchus' Masculine Eloquence Viewing, Performance and Identity Alfonso's Agency Chapter V - Conclusions: Living Music at Court Summary Decorated Space and Musical Meaning Objects in Performance Voice and Agency Imaging the Prince Figures Bibliography ...
