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Compared with [J. S. Bach’s] six sonatas for violin without accompaniment these violoncello solos are light and unpretending. Nevertheless, they are interesting, because they are Bach’s. The first and last (in C major) are little better than exercises for the acquirement of mechanical facility, more suitable to the studio than to the concert-room, for which […]
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In the twelfth through fourteenth centuries, at the height of the cult of the Virgin Mary, a rare and rich conflux of past and present events, both authentic and legendary, catapulted Orvieto into the spotlight as a political, religious, and intellectual center. First papal conflict with the encroaching Holy Roman Emperor and Cathar heresy were […]
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During the nineteenth century Western art music advanced towards a peak of sonorous magnificence, perhaps reached in 1848 at Paris when Hector Berlioz conducted an ensemble of 1,022 performers. The guitar, however, continued to sound at the level of a small continuo group for an Italian opera of the 1640s. In exile from the orchestra […]
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The mythical siren song of Naples, which drew travelers to the shores, manifested itself centuries later in the reality of the Grand Tour. Generations came, lured by the urban expanse and broad culture of the city as well as the natural beauty of the surrounding paesi and regions further south. In his own Italienische Reise, […]
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What modes of scientific knowledge can images of architecture embody? An etching that Strasbourg artist Wendel Dietterlin the Elder released in the second, 1594 instalment of his serially published Architectura treatise [Fig. 1] suggests some answers to this question. The etching portrays what at first appears to be a fantastic portal, formed from wood with […]
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As the diminutive early Christian saint Giustina teeters between life and death in Paolo Veronese’s painting depicting her martyrdom, her gaze sets itself upon one of the most spectacular scenes of the heavens painted in all of the Renaissance. A massive altarpiece, the largest of the painter’s career, in it the skies have opened to […]
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The “art world” comprises a complex, diverse set of people and institutions – an international, interdependent complex of artists, collectors, museum professionals, dealers, and auctioneers, with a large supporting cast of art historians, archaeologists, critics, experts, bronze founders, fine art printers, suppliers of artists’ materials, city planning commissions, corporate sponsors, governmental sources of funding, tax […]
Read MoreOn Wednesday, the 29th of October 1567, the Venetian patrician Francesco Pisani lay mortally ill in his country house in Montagnana, 50 miles southwest of Venice. He summoned his long-time notary, Giovanni Maria Corradin, to draft a codicil to his final will. Corradin called six witnesses to Pisani’s bedside: a cast of characters including his […]
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