Music and visual culture in Renaissance Italy. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Chriscinda Henry, Tim Shephard.
• Editors: Henry, Chriscinda, 1973-; Shephard, Tim
• 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 Antonio Cascelli is Associate Professor of Music at Maynooth University. He has contributed to The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture . His article on Monteverdi's Combattimento was published in the Cambridge Opera Journal and an article on Monteverdi's Orfeo in Philomusica Online. He is co-editor, together with Denis Condon, of Experiencing Music and Visual Cultures: Threshold, Intermediality, Synchresis (Routledge, 2021). Samantha Chang is a PhD Candidate from the Graduate Department of Art at University of Toronto and a Visiting Research Student in the Department of Music at the University of Sheffield. Samantha holds a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS) Doctoral Award, a Faculty of Arts and Science Top (FAST) Doctoral Fellowship, and a Mary H. Beatty Fellowship. A professional flutist and conductor, Samantha graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in London and she is a fellow of Trinity College London and the London College of Music. Samantha’s research explores the conceptual relationships between visual arts and music in the early modern period, specifically those of artistic identity, temporality, synaesthesia, and performativity. Her current research project examines the representation of music in the painter’s studio. David E. Cohen, a musicologist by training, is a Senior Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt. He has published extensively on the speculative tradition in music theory, and especially on concepts of harmony, consonance and dissonance. Jasmine Marie Chiu is a doctoral student in the History of Art at the University of Oxford. She holds a Master’s degree in the History of Art and Visual Culture from the University Oxford and BA in Art History and Dance from Stanford University. Her graduate research focuses on the dynamic relationship between the practice and iconography of dancing during the Italian Renaissance. For many years, Jasmine has been actively involved in dance performance, choreography, teaching, and scholarship both in the United States and abroad. Victor Coelho is Professor of Music and Director of the Centre for Early Music Studies at Boston University. His latest books are (with Keith Polk) Instrumentalists and Renaissance Culture: Players of Function and Fantasy, 1420-1600 (Cambridge, 2016) and the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to the Rolling Stones . He is lutenist and co-director of the group Il Furioso, and has recorded music by Kapsberger, Castaldi, and Handel for the British label Toccata Classics. Flora Dennis is Head of Art History and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sussex. After completing a doctorate in musicology at the University of Cambridge (2002), she held a five-year fellowship at the AHRC Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior, jointly run by the V&A, the Royal College of Art and Royal Holloway, University of London (2001–6). She co-curated the major V&A exhibition At Home in Renaissance Italy (2006–7) and co-edited its accompanying book. She has been awarded research fellowships by Villa I Tatti, the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence; the Italian Academy, Columbia University, New York; the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin; and the AHRC. She has published extensively on music, sound, objects and interiors in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy. Gioia Filocamo teaches at the Istituto superiore di Studi musicali di Terni, and is currently a Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala. After receiving her PhD in the Philology of Music at the University of Pavia-Cremona (2001) she held post-doctoral research fellowships in Bologna (University), Chicago (Newberry Library), Wolfenbüttel (Herzog August Bibliothek), and a scholarship at St John’s College, Cambridge. In 2015 she received a PhD in Modern History at the University of Bologna. She has published extensively on various aspects of musical life in Italy between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. Nicoletta Guidobaldi has been Professor of Musicology at the University of Bologna since 2002, following an appointment as Maître de Conférences and Fellow of the Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance (CESR) at Tours University. Her research interests focus on music iconography and on the cultural history and aesthetics of music during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. She leads the research project Musical Images and Sounds in Courtly Residences of Renaissance Italy, including the strand Studiolo di Gubbio: Ricostruzione digitale e sonora di un microcosmo umanistico . She co-edits the journal Imago Musicae, and serves as co-chair of the IMS Study Group on Musical Iconography. Chriscinda Henry is Associate Professor of Art History at McGill University in Montréal. Her research focuses on the relationship between secular art, social life, and the history of collecting in Renaissance Europe, and she recently published a book on this subject, Playful Pictures: Art, Leisure, and Entertainment in the Venetian Renaissance Home (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021). The book maps connections between visual art, vernacular fiction, secular music, and the comic theater in Venice between around 1490 and 1540. Her recent research has been supported by Villa I Tatti, the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence; the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation; and the Fonds de recherche du Québec. Leslie Korrick is Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Art and Art History, School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design, at York University, Toronto where she also holds appointments in the graduate programs in Art History & Visual Culture and Science & Technology Studies. Published in such journals as Word & Image and Early Music, her research focusses on intersections between the arts; constructions of culture through art forms, urban spaces, collecting, and display; ar
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (344 pages), illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 780.07; Art and music -- Italy -- History -- 16th century; Music -- Italy -- 16th century -- History and criticism; Music in art; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- History -- 16th century; Music -- Social aspects -- Italy -- History -- 16th century; Material culture -- Italy -- History -- 16th century; Renaissance -- Italy -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000875331; 9781000875317
• Related ISBNs: 9780367465391
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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