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The essays in this volume explore the relationship between music and art in the Italian Renaissance across the long sixteenth century, considering an era when music-making was both a subject of Italian painting and a central metaphor in treatises on the arts.
List of contents
Introduction
Chriscinda Henry and Tim Shephard
PART I
Knowledge and Practice Across Disciplines
1. "A Body Composed of Many Parts": The Concept of Harmony in Leonardo da Vinci’s Paragone
David E. Cohen
2. Aporia and the Harmonious Subject
Tim Shephard
3. Singing Sibyls: Music, Inspiration, Labour, and Art on the Sistine Chapel Ceiling
Barnaby Nygren
4. Musical Self-Portraits by Garofalo, Anguissola, and Fontana
Samantha Chang
5. Dangerous Music at the Accademia di San Luca and Federico Zuccaro’s "Art" of Censorship
Leslie Korrick
6. Il Figino and the Paragone
Antonio Cascelli
7. The Tuning Figure in Early Modern Art 1350-1700
Francois Quiviger
8. The Flow of Time and Feelings in Evaristo Baschenis’ Still Lifes with Instruments
Gioia Filocamo
PART II
Cultures of Everyday Life
9. The Iconography of Dancing on Renaissance Wedding Chests
Jasmine Marie Chiu
10. Visible and Invisible Musical Paths in Federico da Montefeltro's Gubbio Studiolo
Nicoletta Guidobadi
11. The Convergence of Sacred and Secular in Vittore Carpaccio’s British Museum Concert
Chriscinda Henry
12. The Artist and Artistry of the "Capirola Lutebook"
Victor Coelho
13. No Country for Old Men? Aging and Men’s Musicianship in Italian Renaissance Art
Sanna Raninen
14. Music, the Visual and the Material in an Italian Renaissance Basin
Flora Dennis
15. Fantastic Finials: Carved Scrolls and Headstocks of Renaissance Stringed Instruments
Emanuela Vai
16. The "Author’s Portrait" in Early Modern Italian Music Books
Massimo Privitera
About the author
Chriscinda Henry is Associate Professor of Art History at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
Tim Shephard is Professor of Musicology at the University of Sheffield, UK, and simultaneously holds a status-only appointment as Associate Professor in History of Art at the University of Toronto, Canada.
Summary
The essays in this volume explore the relationship between music and art in the Italian Renaissance across the long sixteenth century, considering an era when music-making was both a subject of Italian painting and a central metaphor in treatises on the arts.
