TY - BOOK ID - 50066365 TI - Music in the art of Renaissance Italy, 1420-1540 AU - Shephard, Tim AU - Raninen, Sanna AU - Sessini, Serenella AU - Ştefănescu, Laura PY - 2020 SN - 9781912554027 191255402X PB - London Harvey Miller Publishers DB - UniCat KW - Iconography KW - Music KW - musical instruments KW - music [performing arts] KW - Italian Renaissance-Baroque styles KW - anno 1400-1499 KW - anno 1500-1599 KW - Italy KW - Music in art. KW - Art et musique. KW - Musical instruments in art. KW - Instruments de musique KW - Art, Renaissance KW - Art de la Renaissance KW - Art, Italian KW - Art italien KW - Art. KW - Art et musique KW - Music in art KW - Musical instruments in art KW - Musicians KW - Art, Renaissance - Italy KW - Art, Italian - 15th century KW - Art, Italian - 16th century KW - Musicians - Pictorial works KW - music [performing arts genre] UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:50066365 AB - Visual representations of music were ubiquitous in Renaissance Italy. Church interiors were enlivened by altarpieces representing biblical and heavenly musicians, placed in conjunction with the ritual song of the liturgy. The interior spaces of palaces and private houses, in which musical recreations were routine, were adorned with paintings depicting musical characters and myths of the ancient world, and with scenes of contemporary festivity in which music played a central role. Musical luminaries and dilettantes commissioned portraits symbolising their personal and social investment in musical expertise and skill. Such visual representations of music both reflected and sustained a musical culture. The strategies adopted by visual artists when depicting music in any guise betray period understandings of music shared by artists and their clients. At the same time, Renaissance Italians experienced music within a visual environment that prompted them to think about music in particular ways. This book offers the first detailed survey of the representation of music in the art of Renaissance Italy, and in the process opens up new vistas within the social and cultural history of Italian Renaissance music and art.   ER -