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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prignano, Gaia, author.

Series:

Music and visual cultures ; v. 8.

Music and visual cultures ; volume 8

Language:

English

Greek, Modern (1453-)

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Music in art--Catalogs.

Music in art.

Music patronage--Italy--Ferrara--Catalogs.

Music patronage.

Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, 1476-1534--Catalogs.

Alfonso.

Art patronage--Italy--Ferrara--Catalogs.

Art patronage.

Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, 1476-1534.

Italy--Ferrara.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

vi, 230 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), music, plans ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2022]

Language Note:

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."-- Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. A Constellation of Musical Images

1. What more worthy recreation than Music?

2. Courtly fantasies, humanistic enigmas

3. Garofalo and music in Ferrara

4. A musical homage

II. Alfonso I d'Este between Ancient and Modern, Myth and Reality

1. An eclectic duke, in the testimonies of the time

2. Dionysus and Vulcan in the Studio dei Marmi

2.1. The dawn of a `Dionysian stoicism'

2.2. Alfonso, author of his own success

3. Dosso Dossi's Allegory of Music

4. The Camerino delle Pitture, an ideal and idealizing reflection of the Duke

4.1. The iconographic program

4.2. Music in the Camerino

III. The Rediscovered Treasure

1. From dismantling to reconstruction

2. The digital Camerino

Catalogue

Preface

Alfonso I's Patronage

The Ducal Family's Patronage

Other Ferrarese Patrons

Secular subjects

Sacred subjects

Index of Iconographic Themes

Secular iconography

Sacred iconography

Index of Musical Instruments and Elements

Index of Patrons

Index of Artists

Index of Original Locations

Index of Actual Locations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-213) and indexes.

ISBN:

9782503599984

2503599982

OCLC:

1317682692