Author: Szépművészeti Múzeum (Hungary)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painting, Austrian
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Old Masters' Gallery: German, Austrian, Bohemian and British paintings
Author: Szépművészeti Múzeum (Hungary)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painting, Austrian
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The Viola d’Amore
Author: Rachael DurkinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429783655
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This book provides the first scholarly history of the viola d’amore, a popular bowed string instrument of the Baroque era, with a unique tone produced by a set of metal sympathetic strings. Composers like Bach made use of the viola d’amore for its particular sound, but the instrument subsequently fell out of fashion amid orchestral standardisation, only to see a revival as interest in early music and historical performance grew. Drawing on literary accounts, iconography, and surviving instruments, this study examines the origins and development of this eye-catching string instrument in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It explores the rich variation of designs displayed in extant viola d’amore specimens, both as originally constructed and as a result of conversion and repair. The viola d’amore is then set into the wider context of Elizabethan England’s development of instruments with wire strings, and its legacy in the form of the baryton which emerged in the early seventeenth century, followed by a look at the viola d’amore’s own nomenclatorial and organological influence. The book closes with a discussion of the viola d’amore’s revival, and its use and manufacture today. Offering insights for organological research and historical performance practice, this study enhances our knowledge of both the viola d’amore and its wider family of instruments.
Nicolaus Knupfer, an Original Artist
Author: Jo SaxtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Catalogue raisonné.
Bulletin du Musée hongrois des beaux-arts
Author: The Burlington Magazine
Author: Robert Edward DellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs
Author: Albrecht Dürer
Author: Olga KotkováPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, European
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A Handbook for Travellers in South Germany and Austria: Württemberg, Bavaria, Austria, Bohemia, and the Danube from Ulm to the Black Sea
Author: German and Austrian Painting of the 14th-16th Centuries
Author: Národní galerie v PrazePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs
Author: Robert Edward DellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description