Curious Seventeenth-Century Painting of Music-Making in Casale Monferrato
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: A painting in the Cathedral of Casale Monferrato shows six members of the Confraternità di San Filippo playing viols, positioned around an unusual music stand where six individual bookstands are supported by a single, central pole. Two choirboys, a harpsichordist and a musical director also participate. The painting is inscribed “SI. NOMIO. QUIS. BROMIUS?”.
Source: De musica disserenda
DOI: 10.3986/dmd20.1-2.06
Author: Kathryn Bosi Monteath
Language: English
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4411287624