Painting Music in the Sixteenth Century: Essays in Iconography

Contents

• Contents: Preface
• Introduction: Some thoughts on musical inscriptions
• 'Some possible likenesses of Francesco Canova da Milano (1497-1543)'
• The prodigal son at the whores' music, art, and drama
• A motet for Machiavelli's mistress and a chanson for a courtesan
• Mary Magdalene, musician and dancer
• Mary Magdalene, mondaine musicale
• Paintings of lady concerts and the transmission of 'Jouissance vous donneray'
• Musical inscriptions in paintings by Caravaggio and his followers
• Music in and out of Egypt: a little-studied iconographical tradition
• Music in majolica
• Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo's Portrait of a man with a recorder
• Tintoretto's Music-making women at Dresden
• Arcadelt's Amor, tu sai in an anonymous allegory
• The lutenist's hand
• An iconographical echo of the unwritten tradition in a Verdelot madrigal
• Two paintings of 'concert scenes' from the Veneto and the Morgan Library's Unique Music Print of 1520
• Lassio's La cortesia Voi, Donne, Predicate: a Villanesca printed, penned, plucked and depicted
• Valid and invalid options for performing frottole as implied in visual sources
• Addenda et corrigenda
• Index.