Musical images at the court of Alfonso I d'Este : patronage and self-representation in early sixteenth-century Ferrara /

Musical images at the court of Alfonso I d'Este : patronage and self-representation in early sixteenth-century Ferrara /

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Author / Creator:	Prignano, Gaia, author.
Imprint:	Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2022] ©2022
Description:	vi, 230 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), music, plans ; 28 cm.
Language:	English Italian Latin Greek
Series:	Music and visual cultures ; volume 8 Music and visual cultures ; v. 8.
Subject:	Alfonso -- I d'Este, -- Duke of Ferrara, -- 1476-1534 -- Catalogs. Alfonso -- I d'Este, -- Duke of Ferrara, -- 1476-1534. Music in art -- Catalogs. Music patronage -- Italy -- Ferrara -- Catalogs. Art patronage -- Italy -- Ferrara -- Catalogs. Art patronage. Music in art. Music patronage. Italy -- Ferrara. Catalogs. Catalogs.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12956056

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ISBN:	9782503599984 2503599982
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-213) and indexes. Text in English with some Italian, Latin, and Greek.
Summary:	"Alfonso I d'Este ruled Ferrara from 1505 to 1534. Thanks to his passionate patronage, and despite frequent wars and chronical economic difficulties, arts and music gained unprecedented peaks. A stunning proliferation of musical images - whether sacred or profane - characterizes Alfonso's ducal reign, reflecting the central role by music in his personal life and in that of the entire city. In fact, musical elements are disseminated in works commissioned not only by the Duke himself, but also by other members of his family, prominent figures of the nobility, and the highest-ranking religious orders, all involved in a fruitful 'dialogue' with the Castle in the name of a shared love for music. Most of this works are here examined in terms of musical iconography for the first time. The corpus offers a broad overview of iconographic themes, imbued of humanistic culture. Music is present at different levels and in various forms conveying laudatory, moral, identity and allegorical meanings, often blended into complex semantic layers with multiple possible readings. A special attention is dedicated to the mythological iconographic program of the Duke's lost studiolo (the Camerino delle Pitture), of which is also presented a new interactive and sonorized virtual reconstruction. Finally, this book includes the very first musical-iconographical complete catalogue about Ferrara under Alfonso I."--

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