Entangled histories : opera and cultural exchange between Vienna and the Italian states after Napoleon / Claudio Vellutini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vellutini, Claudio, author.

Series:

The new cultural history of music series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Habsburg, House of--Music patronage.

Habsburg, House of.

Opera--Austria--Vienna--19th century.

Opera.

Opera--Italy--19th century.

Physical Description:

xvi, 336 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"In 1828, Friedrich Overbeck-an artist born in Lübeck, trained in Vienna, and then working in Rome-unveiled what was to become one of his most celebrated paintings, Italia und Germania (fig. I.1) The work was seventeen years in the making, and resulted from a long meditation on the theme of cultural reciprocity and fraternity. Overbeck portrays Italy and Germany as two women holding hands, "a symbolic image of sisterly complementarity between two different cultures." Today, this iconographic choice may seem puzzling in light of later accounts of nineteenth-century Italian and German cultural rivalry; yet at the time, it resonated with the experience of Overbeck and many intellectuals and artists whose lives and careers developed across the Alps and whose works benefitted from the "sisterly complementarity" of the two cultural traditions. Italia und Germania prompts us to reconsider assumptions about early nineteenth-century Italian and German cultural relationships"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-327) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Vellutini, Claudio. Entangled histories

ISBN:

9780197656563

0197656560

OCLC:

1478249331