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- Title
Voice, decorum and seduction in Florigerio's Music Lesson.
- Authors
Shephard, Tim
- Abstract
The co-called Music Lesson (c.1530-50) by Venetian artist Sebastiano Florigerio presents an enigmatic musical scene that has thus far eluded wholly convincing interpretation. This article seeks to revise and extend previous efforts, placing the scene in the context of contemporary views on the decorum of musical performance. It offers a Petrarch inspired analysis of the text to the song represented in the painting, as a way of re-reading the dynamics of the scene; and argues that the painting allegorizes questions of music and morality relating to gender and old age. However, it finds that the allegory is playfully undermined by the (beautiful) physical reality of the painting. As a whole, the work represents important aspects of what one might call the aesthetics of musical performance in early to mid-16th-century Italy.
- Subjects
FLORIGERIO, Sebastiano, ca. 1500-ca. 1543; ART criticism; PERFORMANCE practice (Music performance); 16TH century Italian art; MUSIC in art; PROFESSIONALISM; ALLEGORY; HISTORY of aesthetics; SIXTEENTH century
- Publication
Early Music, 2010, Vol 38, Issue 3, p361
- ISSN
0306-1078
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/em/caq054