Music and Visual Culture in Renaissance Italy

Introduction

Chriscinda Henry and Tim Shephard

David E. Cohen　

Tim Shephard

Barnaby Nygren

Samantha Chang

5. Dangerous Music, Noble Painting: The Fate of the "Sister" Arts at the Accademia di San Luca in 1594

Leslie Korrick

Antonio Cascelli

7. The Tuning Figure in Early Modern Art 1350–1700

François Quiviger

Gioia Filocamo

Jasmine M. Chiu

Nicoletta Guidobaldi

Chriscinda Henry

Victor Coelho

Sanna Raninen

Flora Dennis

15. Fantastic Finials: The Materiality, Decoration and Display of Renaissance Musical Instruments

Emanuela Vai

Massimo Privitera

Antonio Cascelli is Associate Professor of Music at Maynooth University. He has contributed to The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture. His article on Monteverdi's Combattimento was published in the Cambridge Opera Journal and an article on Monteverdi's Orfeo in Philomusica Online. He is co-editor, together with Denis Condon, of Experiencing Music and Visual Cultures: Threshold, Intermediality, Synchresis (Routledge, 2021).

Samantha Chang is a PhD Candidate from the Graduate Department of Art at University of Toronto and a Visiting Research Student in the Department of Music at the University of Sheffield. Samantha holds a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS) Doctoral Award, a Faculty of Arts and Science Top (FAST) Doctoral Fellowship, and a Mary H. Beatty Fellowship. A professional flutist and conductor, Samantha graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in London and she is a fellow of Trinity College London and the London College of Music. Samantha’s research explores the conceptual relationships between visual arts and music in the early modern period, specifically those of artistic identity, temporality, synesthesia, and performativity. Her current research project examines the representation of music in the painter’s studio.

Jasmine Marie Chiu is a doctoral student in the History of Art at the University of Oxford. She holds a Master’s degree in the History of Art and Visual Culture from the University Oxford and BA in Art History and Dance from Stanford University. Her graduate research focuses on the dynamic relationship between the practice and iconography of dancing during the Italian Renaissance. For many years, Jasmine has been actively involved in dance performance, choreography, teaching, and scholarship both in the United States and abroad.

Victor Coelho is Professor of Music and Director of the Centre for Early Music Studies at Boston University. His latest books are (with Keith Polk) Instrumentalists and Renaissance Culture: Players of Function and Fantasy, 1420-1600 (Cambridge, 2016) and the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to the Rolling Stones. He is lutenist and co-director of the group Il Furioso, and has recorded music by Kapsberger, Castaldi, and Handel for the British label Toccata Classics.

David E. Cohen, a musicologist by training, is a Senior Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt. He has published extensively on the speculative tradition in music theory, and especially on concepts of harmony, consonance and dissonance.

Flora Dennis is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Sussex. After completing a doctorate in musicology at the University of Cambridge (2002), she held a five-year fellowship at the AHRC Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior, jointly run by the V&A, the Royal College of Art and Royal Holloway, University of London (2001–06). She co-curated the major V&A exhibition At Home in Renaissance Italy (2006–07) and co-edited its accompanying book. She has been awarded research fellowships by Villa I Tatti, the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence; the Italian Academy, Columbia University, New York; the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin; and the AHRC. She has published extensively on music, sound, objects, and interiors in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy.

Gioia Filocamo teaches at the Istituto superiore di Studi musicali di Terni, and is currently a Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala. After receiving her PhD in the Philology of Music at the University of Pavia-Cremona (2001), she held post-doctoral research fellowships in Bologna (University), Chicago (Newberry Library), Wolfenbüttel (Herzog August Bibliothek), and a scholarship at St John’s College, Cambridge. In 2015, she received a PhD in Modern History at the University of Bologna. She has published extensively on various aspects of musical life in Italy between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Nicoletta Guidobaldi has been Professor of Musicology at the University of Bologna since 2002, following an appointment as Maître de Conférences and Fellow of the Centre d’Etudes Supérieures de la Renaissance (CESR) at Tours University. Her research interests focus on music iconography and on the cultural history and aesthetics of music during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. She leads the research project Musical Images and Sounds in Courtly Residences of Renaissance Italy, including the strand Studiolo di Gubbio: Ricostruzione digitale e sonora di un microcosmo umanistico. She co-edits the journal Imago Musicae, and serves as co-chair of the IMS Study Group on Musical Iconography.

Chriscinda Henry is Associate Professor of Art History at McGill University in Montréal. Her research focuses on the relationship between secular art, social life, and the history of collecting in Renaissance Europe, and she recently published a book on this subject, Playful Pictures: Art, Leisure, and Entertainment in the Venetian Renaissance Home (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021). The book maps connections between visual art, vernacular fiction, secular music, and the comic theater in Venice between around 1490 and 1540. Her recent research has been supported by Villa I Tatti, the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence; the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation; and the Fonds de recherche du Québec.

Leslie Korrick is Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Art and Art History, School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design, at York University, Toronto where she also holds appointments in the graduate programs in Art History & Visual Culture and Science & Technology Studies. Published in such journals as Word & Image and Early Music, her research focusses on intersections between the arts; constructions of culture through art forms, urban spaces, collecting, and display; art-science relations; and sound art. She is currently completing a book on relations between Italian painting and music in Early Modern theory and practice, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; related essays appear in The Sounds and Sights of Performance in Medieval and Renaissance Music and Art and Music in the Early Modern Period, both published by Routledge.　

Barnaby Nygren received his PhD from Harvard University and is currently Associate Professor of Art History at Loyola University Maryland. He has published on a variety of topics, including perspective and humor in art. His most recent work, forthcoming in two edited books and in Word & Image, has looked at the wildly diverse topics of the grotesque in early colonial Mexico and the artistic thought of Michelangelo.　

Massimo Privitera is Professor of Musicology at the University of Palermo. His research is chiefly focused on the sixteenth- to seventeenth-century Italian madrigal. He has edited Frescobaldi’s madrigals (with Lorenzo Bianconi), Orazio Vecchi’s six-voice canzonette (with Rossana Dalmonte), and the madrigals of Achille Falcone. He has published articles on Marenzio, Monteverdi, Vecchi, Celano, and a monograph on Arcangelo Corelli; and has ongoing research on the birth and development of the opus number. He also works on music and painting, the song, and the musical on the cinema screen. He is a vocalist, arranger, and choir-director.

François Quiviger is a Fellow of the Warburg Institute, University of London, where he previously worked as a librarian, curator of digital resources, researcher, and teacher. He has written on Renaissance art theories, academies, wine, banquets, and the history and representation of sensation in early modern art.

Sanna Raninen is a Research Fellow at Uppsala University, working on the research project Cultural History of Music Books in Post-Reformation Sweden: Making and Owning Songbooks of Liturgy and Devotion,” funded by the Swedish Research Council. Previously Sanna was a post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Finnish Literature Society, conducting a project funded by the Kone Foundation on the material culture of music books in Post-Reformation Sweden; and before that she was a Research Associate for the Leverhulme Trust-funded project “Music in the Art of Renaissance Italy” at the University of Sheffield. She completed her PhD at the University of Manchester as part of the AHRC-funded project “Production and Reading of Music Sources 1480–1530.

Tim Shephard is Professor of Musicology at the University of Sheffield and simultaneously holds a status-only appointment as Associate Professor in History of Art at the University of Toronto. He is the (co-)author or co-editor of numerous books and articles on music and visual culture, including the Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture (2014), and Music in the Art of Renaissance Italy 1420-1540 (Harvey Miller, 2020). He has led two major projects funded by the Leverhulme Trust: "Music in the Art of Renaissance Italy" (2014-17), and "Sounding the Bookshelf 1501: Music in a Year of Italian Printed Books" (2020-23).

Emanuela Vai is Senior Research Fellow and Head of Research (Humanities) at Worcester College; and the current Keeper of the Bate Collection of Musical Instruments, University of Oxford. Previously, she has held positions at the University of Oxford as Scott Opler Fellow in Art and Architectural History; at the University of Cambridge; at the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the University of York (CREMS); at the Centre d’études supérieures de la Renaissance de Tours (CESR); and at the Harvard Centre for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti, where she was Hanna Kiel Fellow. She has published on musical instruments, soundscapes, space, and the senses in Renaissance social life.

Biography

Chriscinda Henry is Associate Professor of Art History at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

Tim Shephard is Professor of Musicology at the University of Sheffield, UK, and simultaneously holds a status-only appointment as Associate Professor in History of Art at the University of Toronto, Canada.