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Echoing Helicon - Music, Art and Identity in the Este Studioli, 1440-1530 (Hardcover)
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Echoing Helicon - Music, Art and Identity in the Este Studioli, 1440-1530 (Hardcover)
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The private studioli of Italian rulers are among the most revealing
interior spaces of the Renaissance. In them, ideals of sober
recreation met with leisured reality in the construction of a
private princely identity performed before the eyes of a select
public. The decorative schemes installed in such rooms were
carefully designed to prompt, facilitate and validate the
performances through which that identity was constituted. Echoing
Helicon reconstructs, through the (re)interpretation of painted and
intarsia decoration, the role played by music, musicians and
musical symbolism in those performances. Drawing examples from the
Este dynasty - despotic rulers of Ferrara throughout the
Renaissance who employed such musicians as Pietrobono, Tromboncino
and Willaert, and such artists as Tura, Mantegna and Titian -
author Tim Shephard reaches new conclusions about the integration
of musical and visual arts within the courtly environment of
renaissance Italy, and about the cultural work required of music
and of images by those who paid for them.
Relying on Renaissance-era source material from a wide range of
disciplines as well as new approaches derived from critical and
cultural theory, Shephard provides a fresh look at the music of
this ninety-year period of the Italian Renaissance. While much has
been written about the studiolo by historians of art and
architecture, it has only recently become a growing area of
interest among musicologists. As the first English language
monograph devoted to the music of the studiolo, Echoing Helicon is
a significant contribution to this developing area of research and
essential reading for both musicologists and art historians
specializing in the Italian Renaissance.
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