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2. the visual art is a strange and challenging way to celebrate music …

4. Concerts in paintings

6. the young woman keeps time by tapping her fingers against the marble ledge,
the singer-lutenist is deep in concentration, his eyes lowered towards
the open book containing the musical composition,
the young man behind him appears to be straining to reach or hold a note
the fiddle and recorder in the foreground
Lorenzo Costa
A Concert
Le concert
1485-1495
National Gallery, London

9. two recorders, a lyra da braccio, and a lute ...
a group of six men and women singing and playing instruments,
two open part books, whose musical notations are largely legible
Callisto Piazza, Calisto de la Piaza da Lodi
The Concert, Musical Group
Le concert, Groupe de musique
1530
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia

12. Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music and musicians, playing a harpsichord ...
three singing angels accompany the saint
Michiel Coxie
Saint Cecilia
Sainte Cécile
1569
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid

16. unusual painting of Apollo and the Muses …
an mythological scene at night,
an al fresco music concert
with
Pegasus
and
a flying nude
Lavinia Fontana
Apollo and the Muses (Parnassus)
Apollon et les muses (Parnasse)
1598-1600
Collection privée
Private collection

20. one of the mysteries of European painting ...
the standing figure pouring water from a glass jar represents
the superior tragic poetry,
the seated one holding a flute is the Muse of the less prestigious
comedy or pastoral poetry,
the well-dressed youth who is playing a lute is the poet of exalted
lyricism,
the bareheaded one is an ordinary lyricist
...
the harmony of scenery and figures, colours and forms proclaims
the close interrelationship between man and nature,
poetry and music
Titien,Titian
Le Concert champêtre
Pastoral Concert or Le Concert Champêtre
1508-1509
Musée du Louvre, Paris

23. Benson's Concert genres, with their flute and lute players,
frolicking couples ...
an elegant company with musicians seated at a table with fruit and wine,
and
a landscape
Ambrosius Benson
Le concert après le repas
The Concert after the Meal
1540-1550
Musée du Louvre, Paris

26. Titian very influenced by Giorgione …
a singer,
a harpsichord player
and
a Dominican monk holding a viola da gamba
…
a captivating and mysterious work !
(The final clue to the picture’s meaning could be
in the direct gaze of the youth outward towards us
... Have we interrupted the concert?)
Titian, Titien
The Concert or The Interrupted Concert
Le Concert, ou Le Concert interrompu
1507
Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence

30. a bucolic concert ...
an owl as concertmaster holds a music book
and leads a crowd of birds that sing, shout and scream
... a happy cacophony
Paul de Vos
Concert of Birds
Concert d'oiseaux
1650-1678
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Antwerp

34. a delightful portrait ...
Jan Miense Molenaer with his brothers, halfbrothers and sisters,
Geertruijt, the older sister plays the cithern, Bartholomeus a violin,
Adriaen a lute, Maria sings and beats time,
and Anthonij plays a cello,
the youngest children Lucia and Nicolaes making bubbles,
the painter’s father and mother appear in the large portrait paintings
in the background ...
(This family portrait is full of symbolism. Blowing bubbles is an
allusion to mortality. Making music together expresses the harmony
in the Molenaer family.)
Jan Miense Molenaer
Family portrait of Jan Miense Molenaer
Autoportrait avec les membres de la famille
ou La Famille faisant de la musique
1635
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem

38. red damask curtains have been theatrically drawn to reveal
the musicians …
comfortably installed on a kind of stone balcony,
three singers are reading from sheet music
while the two musicians accompanying them improvise the melody
the musician on the right is playing the lute,
and the one on the left an archilute or bass lute
Gerard van Honthorst
Concert on a Balcony
Le Concert
1624
Musée du Louvre, Paris

42. a festive scene ...
a group of brightly dressed musicians
and singers cheerfully following
the lead of a concertmaster
Gerard van Honthorst
The Concert
Le concert
1623
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

46. in a pristine domestic parlor …
a young woman sitting at a harpsichord,
a man playing the lute,
a standing woman holds a sheet of music
the harpsichord's upturned lid is decorated with an Arcadian landscape;
its bright coloring stands in contrast to the two paintings hanging
on the wall
lying on the large table is a lute, a viola da gamba lies on the floor
(On 18 March 1990 was stolen and remains missing.
Experts believe it may be the most valuable stolen object in the world;
as of 2015, it was valued at US$250 million.)
Johannes Vermeer
The Concert
Le concert
1663-1666
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

50. the members of a heavenly orchestra,
playing period musical instruments:
a spinet, a harp, a flute and a viola da gamba,
a angel is holding the score and directing
as well as singing
the angels` robes sway with movement,
as if they were swirling tongues of fire ...
these angels have no wings
El Greco
The Concert of the Angels
Concert des Anges
1608
National Gallery, Athens

54. a forest landscape ...
on the banks of a pond, a woman is playing the cello,
one of her companions is singing beside her
while the other is lying on the grass listening to them
the faces of these young women are barely outlined,
as if it were the music itself that the painter wished to depict
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Le Concert champêtre
Pastoral Concert
1857
Musée Condé, Château de Chantilly, Chantilly

58. Manet enlarged the National Gallery picture
by adding an extra strip of canvas along its right side.
By adding this extra canvas, Manet brought the waitress
into the center of the composition.
He then reworked the background, adding the stage,
the dancer and the orchestra, which are painted
in a much looser manner than the foreground figures.
Edouard Manet
Coin de café-concert
Corner of a Café-Concert
1878-1880
National Gallery, London

61. the central area of the pit, studied, precise and detailed,
is a veritable group portrait and accurately depicts the musicians
and their instruments;
on the stage the dancers on the other hand ​are scarcely sketched
Edgar Degas
L'Orchestre de l'Opéra
The Orchestra at the Opera
1870
Musée d’Orsay, Paris

64. the striking composition of this musical performance places
the spectator among the people in the orchestra section
in the shadowed foreground;
the eye is attracted beyond the musicians to the singer in a red dress,
who is strongly illuminated by the footlights ...
Edgar Degas
Le Café-Concert des Ambassadeurs
Café-Concert at Les Ambassadeurs
1876
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon

67. the musically flickering, warm candlelight
of the theatrically illuminated concert room in Sanssouci ...
the King of Prussia, a passionately keen flautist
is playing on the occasion of a visit from his sister,
the Margravine of Bayreuth
Adolph von Menzel
Flute Concert with Frederick the Great in Sanssouci
Concert de Flûte de Frédéric II, le Grand,
au Château de Sanssouci
1850-1852
Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin

72. a favourite home entertainment,
a musical concertat home
a family dressed in a 17th century Dutch costume,
a upset jug, traditional symbol of loose living
a dog, ears back, a sign that something is bothering him
and
a tousled raven ... poor bird, is clearly distressed
by the dissonance of human music !
Fritz von Uhde
Family Concert
Concert en famille
1881
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Cologne

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Concerts in paintings
Le Concert dans la peinture
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