‎Florence Gétreau, Fulvia Morabito (eds)‎
‎Music and the Figurative Arts in the Baroque Era‎

‎, Brepols, 2026 Hardback, Pages: xvi + 448, Size:210 x 270 mm, Illustrations:192 b/w, 16 col., 9 tables b/w., 1 music example, Languages: English, Italian, French. ISBN 9782503621845.‎

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‎Summary The figurative arts - or the arts that transcribe the visible - are interested in music in many ways. If we consider the hierarchy of genres, particularly formalised at the end of the 17th century with the advent of the academies, music is present in religious subjects, historical and mythological themes, the performing arts, genre scenes, portraits and still lifes. Artists offered musical motifs using a wide variety of techniques, including painting of course, but also the graphic arts (drawing, engraving) and the plastic arts (sculpture, objets d'art and textiles in particular). This multiplicity of themes, media and techniques gives us the opportunity to discover common or rarer musical instruments that can be remarkably observed, but also musical notations that are sometimes perfectly identifiable, particular playing techniques that refer to theoretical treatises or learning tutors, and musical ensembles appropriate to a wide variety of circumstances (religious rituals, festivals, urban or court entertainments, the performing arts, domestic practices). All these visual traces of music raise questions about the place of music among the other arts, and about its social and symbolic importance, since it suggests or even provokes the affirmation of a status, of a terrestrial or spiritual power, of an aesthetic or even philosophical choice. The contributions gathered here reflect this diversity during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Italy, France, Germany, Spain and Austria. TABLE OF CONTENTS Florence Gétreau and Fulvia Morabito Preface Spiritual Inspiration Maria Luisa Baldassari Chi era il maestro di Santa Cecilia? Dipinti di S. Cecilia e trattati tastieristici nel primo Barocco Galliano Ciliberti Un caso di musica picta: il mottetto In te Domine spes mea attribuito a Giacomo Carissimi Gaëtan Naulleau Le choeur polyphonique dans les planches illustrées du Cæremoniale Episcoporum (1600-1779) : caractéristiques, circulation et signification d'un thème iconographique Scenography and Theatrical Art Silvia Bier « Le propre de ce spectacle? »: Early French Opera and the Idea of a Synthesis of Arts Adriana De Feo Pietro Pariati and Apostolo Zeno at the Viennese Court: Baroque Spectacle and the Representation of Power Portraits of Musicians Nicola Usula Musica nei ritratti e ritratti nella musica: il caso di Leopoldo i Asburgo (1640-1705) Florence Gétreau The Musical Assembly with Reincken, Buxtehude and Theile Painted in 1674 by Johannes Voorhout: Reassessing Its Historiography and Interpretation Vincent Robin Quelques portraits de musettes et de musettistes aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles Court Music Images Florence Gétreau Présence de la musique dans l'iconographie du salon de la Paix à Versailles : les peintures et les trophées des bas-reliefs de métal doré Michael Latcham All the World's a Stage: Farinelli at the Royal Court of Spain, 1737 to 1760 Cristina Bordas Visual Memory of Farinelli in 21st Century Madrid Iconographic Appendix Abstract and Biographies Index of Names‎