Status as of May 2002
PLEASE DO NOT SEND ADDITIONAL ENTRIES. The entries published here are only the ones for which I have somewhat respectable bibliographic entries at this time. I have much more information for these and for additional entries which will be added as I get around to it. I didn't set out to compile a bibliography -- or, more properly, an iconography. This list is just what happens to be lying about the house. It is very much a work in progress, but if I waited until everything was perfect, it would never appear.
However, I would appreciate corrections -- wrong page references, for example. Send corrections to
Mary Rasmussen
Music Department
University of New Hampshire
Durham NH 03824 (USA)
I am singularly error-prone, alas, and I am sure that there are numerous mistakes in this list. Sorry.
The purpose of this iconography is to answer the question "Where can I find an illustration of ...?" I have included only works of art for which there is a published reproduction (plus some that are in the Visual Collection, Fine Arts Library, Harvard University and a few in the Bild-Archiv Photo Marburg).
Many thanks to the UHN Music Department for putting this index on their web page.
For the purposes of this iconography, however unfashionable it may be, the term "arch lute" is used generically for lutes with two heads, one surmounting the other; and the term "theorbo-lute" is used generically for lutes with two heads, one more or less at a right angle to the other.
Ahasuerus: [Bonone Pa] Bonone, Carlo (1569-1632). The Feast of Ahasuerus. Ravenna, Chiesa Metropolitana. Includes several musicians, among them two lute players. (Vis. Coll. 372.B6465.12Ah)
[G Carlone Fr] Carlone, Giovanni (1590-1630). The Feast of Ahasuerus. Genoa, Villa Soprani, Via Camilla 14, salone. fresco. Includes several musicians, among them one playing a lute. (Le ville Genovesi. Genoa 1967. p. 440 [useless reproduction])
Triumph of David: [Guercino Dr] Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) (1591-1666). The Triumph of David. Budapest SM. drawing. Includes women singing and playing a lute (perhaps more). (Alte und moderne Kunst 12/H.93 [1967] 51 [detail])
[Rosselli Pa] Rosselli, Matteo (1578-1651). The Triumph of David (1620). Florence, Palazzo Pitti. Among the several Welcoming Women, one plays a lute. (A. M. Francini Ciaranfi. Pitti. Galleria Palatina. Novara 1955. p. 106; Pantheon 37 [1979] 387; Vis. Coll. 372.R7364.12D)
[Rosselli Pa] _______. The Triumph of David. Paris Louvre. Six musical Welcoming Women, including three playing lutes. (Musique-Images-Instruments 2 [1996] 249 [small reproduction]; Vis. Coll. R7364.12D[a])
[Rosselli Pa] _______, attr. The Triumph of David. Greenville SC, Bob Jones University. The Welcoming Women play lute, flute, tambourine and triangle. (The Bob Jones University Collection of Religious Paintings. Greenville SC 1962. vol. I, no. 64; Vis. Coll. 372.R7364.12D[b])
Other: [L Bassano Pa] Bassano, Leandro (1557-1622). The Flood. London art market (1961). There is a lute and a frame drum amongst the flotsam. (Burlington 103 [1961] December, Notable Works pl. X)
Cana, Wedding at: [Bonone Pa] Bonone, Carlo (1569-1632). The Wedding at Cana. Ferrara, Pinacoteca Comunale. Musicians play positive organ, viola (?) and lute. (G. Agnelli. Ferrara e Pomposa. Bergamo 1906. [Italia artistica, 2] p. 83 [poor reproduction]; Vis. Coll. 372.B6465.24C)
[Varotari Pa] Varotari, Alessandro (Il Padovanino) (1588-1648). The Wedding at Cana (1622). Venice, Accademia. With several musicians, including one playing a chitarrone. There is also a chitarrone case. (P. Molmenti. Venezia. Bergamo 1905. [Italia artistica, 3] p. 116 [poor reproduction]; 1970 catalog, cat. and fig. no. 139 [poor reproduction]; Vis. Coll. 372.V432.24c)
[Varotari Pa] _______. The Wedding at Cana. Venice, Scuola di San Marco. Musicians play harpsichord, double bass, violin, tenor violin, arch-lute and harp. (C. Donzelli and G. M. Pilo. I pittori del seicento veneto. Florence 1967. pl. II after p. 20 [color reproduction], pl. 339 [small reproduction])
Flight to Egypt: See also Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor, Landscapes; Miscellaneous Figures, Angels.
Nativity, Adoration of the Shepherds: See also Miscellaneous Figures, Angels.
Parables -- Lazarus and the Rich Man: [L Bassano Pa] Bassano, Leandro (1557-1622). Lazarus and the Rich Man. private collection. Musicians at the Rich Man's table play violin and lute. Very similar to the same subject depicted by Jacopo Bassano in Cadiz, Museo Provincial (see 16th-century section). (Vis. Coll. 372.B298.25D)
[Saraceni Pa] Saraceni, Carlo (1585-1620). Lazarus and the Rich Man. Rome, Pinacoteca Capitolino. Includes figures playing two guitars and a lute. (A. Ottani Cavina. Carlo Saraceni. Milan 1968. fig. 41; exh Vienna, Palais Harrach, 2001: Dipingere la musica; Musik in der Malerei des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts. S. Ferino-Pagden, ed. no. III.17, p. 229 [fine color reproduction], as 1521/24; Pantheon 36 [1978] 141)
[Toeput Pa] Toeput, Lodewijk (called Pozzoserrato) (1550-1605). Lazarus and the Rich Man. Treviso, Saletta dei Rettori al Monte di Pietà. Includes a woman singing and men playing viola da braccio and lute. (C. Donzelli and G. M. Pilo. I pittori del seicento veneto. Florence 1967. pl. 11, with location Treviso MC; G. Mazzotti. Ville venete. Rome 1957. p. 389)
Parables -- Prodigal Son: See also Miscellaneous Figures, Angels.
[C Caliari Dr] Caliari, Carletto (1570-1596). The Prodigal Son with the Whores (?). London BM 1895-9-15-851. drawing. Includes two lute players: a woman playing and a man holding his lute. (Vis. Coll. 372d.C128.90[a])
[Guercino Pa] Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) (1591-1666). The Return of the Prodigal Son. Turin Sabauda. Musicians in the background, on a balcony, play violin, bass viol (?), lute, and perhaps two more instruments. The musicians are not clearly depicted. (A. Bovero. Immagini dell'arte italiana attraverso i secoli, V. Turin 1966. p. not recorded [fairly clear color reproduction], as 1618-1620; Vis. Coll. 372.G937.25P)
St. Cecilia: See also Portraits, Genre Portraits and Conversation Pieces; Miscellaneous Figures, Angels.
[Albini-Fratta-Fabbri Pr] Domenico Maria Fratta (1696-1763) and Giovanni Fabbri (doc.1736-m.1777) after Alessandro Albini (1580-1646). St. Cecilia. engraving. She holds a portative organ (upside-down, a la Raphael). At her feet are a lute (rendered in deep perspective), a recorder, and perhaps a slender flute. Angels above play lute, flute (tapering a bit like a straight trumpet) and tambourine. (E. Negro and M. Pirondini. La scuola dei Carracci ... [vol. I]. Modena 1994. p. 39 [small reproduction])
[Grammatica Pa] Grammatica, Antiveduto (1571-1626). St. Cecilia. Lisbon, MN de Arte Antigua. The Saint sings, angels play harp and lute, and there are a violin, little lute, recorder and tambourine (the tambourine of his Turin painting) on a table in front of them. (exh Cleveland Museum of Art, 1971: Caravaggio and his Followers. Ed. R. E. Spear. p. 108 [not exhibited]) Variant: Vienna KH. (exh Vienna, Palais Harrach, 2001: Dipingere la musica; Musik in der Malerei des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts. S. Ferino-Pagden, ed. no. III.28, p. 239 [ok color reproduction]. Considers this a later, ca.1620/25, version. Dates the Lisbon painting as 1610/12; exh Rome 2000-01: Colori della musica ... p. 20 [small reproduction, not exhibited])
[Saraceni Pa] Saraceni, Carlo (1585-1620). St. Cecilia and an Angel. Rome, GNAA (Palazzo Barberini). St. Cecilia tunes a theorbo-lute. An angel holds a huge double-bass viol (six strings). Unplayed: violin, harp, recorder, pommer (bell only visible). (C. Donzelli and G. M. Pilo. I pittori del seicento veneto. Florence 1967. pl. I after p. 16; Dufourcq Musique. vol. I, pp. 250-251 [dark reproduction, in page crease]; G. Golzio. Seicento e settecento. Turin 1968. [Storia d'arte classica e italiana, 4] p. 538, as Orazio Gentileschi; Mirimonde Sainte Cécile. p. 190; A. Moir. The Italian Followers of Caravaggio. Cambridge MA 1967. fig. 92 [poor reproduction]; A. Ottani Cavina. Carlo Saraceni. Milan 1968. figs. 44, 47, 49; Pincherle p. 84 [ok reproduction]; C. Sartori, ed. Ricordi Enciclopedia della Musica. Milan 1963-4. vol. I, pl. 221 [ok reproduction]; P. Zampetti. Pittura italiano del seicento. Bergamo 1960. p. 24 [fine color reproduction]; exh Vienna, Palais Harrach, 2001: Dipingere la musica; Musik in der Malerei des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts. S. Ferino-Pagden, ed. p. 74 [not exhibited]; exh Rome 2000-01: Colori della musica ... no. 57, pp. 237 [ok color reproduction], 239 [color detail with lute and harp]; Vis. Coll. 372.G2894.38C, as Orazio Gentileschi; Vis. Coll. 372.Sa71.38Ce, as Saraceni)
[Schidoni Pa] Schidoni, Bartolomeo (ca.1570-1615). St. Cecilia and an Angel. Naples MN. St. Cecilia sits at a small organ. The angel holds a cornett. Unplayed: viola (the Saint has her foot on it), bass viol/cello, lute (only the back of the corpus visible), two recorders and tambourine. (Musica calendar 1986: 16-29 November [fine color reproduction]; Vis. Coll. 372.B141.38C, as by Sisto Badalocchio [1581-1647])
[Strozzi Pa] Strozzi, Bernardo (1581-1644). St. Cecilia. Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Includes (unplayed) positive organ, violin and lute. (exh Binghamton NY, University AG, 1967: Bernardo Strozzi. no. 8, as ca.1615/20; 1949 catalog, p. 42 [poor reproduction]; 1959 handbook, p. 73 [poor reproduction]; Connoisseur 181 [1972] 212) Variant (New York art market [1955]). (Connoisseur 136 [1955] August ad p. lv [poor reproduction])
Strozzi Pa] _______. St. Cecilia. Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza. She holds a lute and a palm branch. There are organ pipes at the upper left and a violin in the right foreground. (Mirimonde Sainte Cécile. pl. 147; exh Vienna, Palais Harrach, 2001: Dipingere la musica; Musik in der Malerei des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts. S. Ferino-Pagden, ed. p. 70 [large detail, without the violin, not exhibited])
[Strozzi Pa] _______. St. Cecilia and an Angel. private collection. St. Cecilia has a lute. There is an unplayed bass viol/cello. (Mirimonde Sainte Cécile. pl.148)
Apollo: [BI Rome 1612] Anon. Title page of Giovanni Girolamo [Johann Hieronymus] Kapsberger, Libro Primo di Arie. Rome 1612. engraving. Apollo holds a lyre and is surrounded by musical instruments, including two partly visible lutes. very unimp. (Fraenkel no. 77)
Muses (unidentified): See also Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor, Pageants; Scenes of Everyday Life -- Indoor, Operatic.
[Pa Florence Stibbert] Italian (Venetian), early 17th century. Apollo and the Muses. Florence, Museo Stibbert. painting on a harpsichord. One of the Muses has a lute. (G. Cantelli. Il Museo Stibbert a Firenze. Ed. H. R. Robinson. Milan [1974]. vol. II, pl. 34 [useless reproduction])
[Gatti Pr] Gatti, Oliviero (op.1602-1628). The Muses on Mount Parnassus beneath the Stemma of Cardinal Pio(1626). engraving. One of the Muses plays a lute and there is another lute-like instrument (large, with the head of a Renaissance fiddle). (IB vol. 41, no. 52, p. 69)
[Passarotti Pa] Passarotti, Tiburzio (ca.1555-1612). The Pierides Changed into Magpies. Bologna PN. Includes Muses, one of whom plays a lute. (La Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna. Bologna 1967. p. 279)
Muses (Terpsichore): [Baglione Pa] Baglione, Giovanni (a.1570-1644). Terpsichore. Arras (Pas-de-Calais), Musée de Beaux-Arts. She pays a chitarrone (back view). (Dufourcq Musique. vol. I, p. 247 [fair reproduction]; V. Golzio. Seicento e settecento. Turin 1968. [Storia dell'arte classica e italiana, 4] p. 549; Imago Musicae 4 [1987] 272 [poor reproduction]; Vis. Coll. 372.B150.4Te)
Nymphs: [Agostino Carracci Pr] Carracci, Agostino (1557-1602). Dancing Nymphs. engraving. Four dance and one plays the lute. In the background the Apulean shepherd is being changed into a wild olive tree (Ovid, Metamorphosis XIV, 512-26). (IB vol. 39, no. 113, p. 155)
Orpheus: [Annibale Carracci Fr] Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609). Sacrifice of Pelias; Jason Crossing the Anaurus. Bologna, Palazzo Fava (1939: Albergo majestic), Sala di Giasone. fresco. Includes Orpheus playing a lute. (D. Posner. Annibale Carracci, II. London 1971. pl. 15h; Art Bulletin 46 [1964] fig. 14 after p. 86; Vis. Coll. 372.C2332.4[a]3, 3a)
Ages (Golden): [Agostino Carracci Pr] Carracci, Agostino (1557-1602). "Del reciproco Amor .../Love in the Golden Age." engraving. In the foreground Cupid has a harp. In the background nude dancers are accompanied by draped musicians playing renaissance fiddle and lute. (IB vol. 39, no. 119, p. 161; Burlington 124 [1982] 205)
Geographical: [BI Padua 1611] Anon. "Europa," from Cesare Ripa, Iconologia. Padua, Pietro Paolo Tozzi, 1611. p. 86. woodcut. The personification is surrounded by symbolic objects, incuding a lute. (facsimile: New York 1976)
[Agostino Carracci Pr] Carracci, Agostino (1557-1602). Allegory of the City of Cremona, from Cremona Fedelissima. engraving. With a pile of objects, including several musical instruments, among them a lute. (IB vol. 39, no. 193, p. 233; exh Vienna, Palais Harrach, 2001: Dipingere la musica; Musik in der Malerei des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts. S. Ferino-Pagden, ed. no. I.59, p. 183 [small reproduction, not exhibited])
Hearing (Five Senses): See also Portraits.
[Guercino-Bartolozzi Pr] Francesco Bartolozzi (1729-1815) after Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) (1591-1666). Allegory of Hearing (?). etching. A man with a turban holds a sort of ram's horn. Another plays a chitarrone and two girls and a boy sing. (Musica calendar 1972: October 15-28 [fine reproduction])
[Manfredi Pa] Manfredi, Bartolomeo (1580-1620), attr. Allegory of the Four Seasons and the Five Senses. Dayton OH, Art Institute (formerly Stroganoff and Riggs collections). The personification of Summer and Hearing is a woman playing a lute. (A. Moir. The Italian Followers of Caravaggio. Cambridge MA 1967. fig. 44 [fair reproduction]; exh Cremona, 1987: Dopo Caravaggio ... no. 3, p. 63 [ok color reproduction]; Fifty Treasures of the Dayton Art Institute. Dayton 1969. no. 26 [color reproduction]; Burlington 100 [1958] March ad p. xiii) Another version (present location unknown, ex coll. Chaliapin). (exh Cremona, 1987: Dopo Caravaggio ... p. 62 [fair reproduction]. Considers this the better version, but consider the Dayton painting an original, not a copy.)
Love and Sex: [Pr Anon.] Anon., late 16th century? "Omnia vincit Amor." etching. Among the objects at Amor's feet are a harp, a lute, a serpent/corno torto, a cornett and an S-shaped trumpet. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 69 [1967] 319, as late 15th century)
[Baglione Pa] Baglione, Giovanni (a.1570-1644). Amor vincitore. private collection. Includes unplayed and partly visible viola and lute. (A. Moir. The Italian Followers of Caravaggio. Cambridge MA 1967. fig. 31 [fair reproduction], as allegory of divine love)
[Caravaggio Pa] Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da (1571-1610). Amor Vincitore. Berlin SMPK. Includes unplayed violin (and bow) and lute. (B. Berenson. Caravaggio ... London 1953. pl. 50; W. Bissell. "Concerning the Date of Caravaggio's Amor Victorious," in Hortus imaginum. Essays in Western Art. Ed. R. Enggass and M. Stohstad. Lawrence KA 1974. pp. 113-123, as ca.1598/99; V. Golzio. Seicento e settecento. Turin 1968. [Storia dell'arte classica e italiana, 4] p. 509; R. Hinks. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio ... London 1953. cat. no. 20, pll. 21, 22 [detail], as ca.1598; A. Moir. The Italian Followers of Caravaggio. Cambridge MA 1967. fig. 10 [small reproduction]; exh Cleveland, 1971: Caravaggio and his Followers. Ed. R. E. Spear. fig. 9 [not exhibited]; exh New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985: The Age of Caravaggio. no.79, pp. 279 [fine color reproduction], 280 [fine detail]; exh Vienna, Palais Harrach, 2001: Dipingere la musica; Musik in der Malerei des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts. S. Ferino-Pagden, ed. p. 100 [ok reproduction, not exhibited]; exh Rome 2000-01: Colori della musica ... pp. 58 [fine detail of the lute, violin and music book], 61 [ok reproduction, not exhibited]; The New Grove vol. 3, p. 127 [detail]; Gazette des Beaux-Arts 69 [1967] 320; Musica calendar 1962: 6-19 May [ok reproduction]; Vis. Coll. 372.C176.4C[a])
[Caravaggio Pa] _______, attr. Amore vincitore. private collection. Includes unplayed violin and lute. (exh Cleveland Museum of Art, 1971: Caravaggio and his Followers. Ed. R. E. Spear. no. 4 [dark reproduction])
[Caravaggio Follower Pa] _______, Follower. Amor vincitore. Prague, Castle. Includes unplayed violin and lute. (J. Neumann. Obrazárna Pra_ského Hradu. Prague 1964. no. 29, p. 114, as by Orazio Gentileschi; Burlington 109 [1967] June Notable Works supplement, unpaged -- figure A under the commentary for pl. X; Gazette des Beaux-Arts 69 [1967] 321, notes attribution to Gentileschi, suggests more likely a Caravaggiste, perhaps Riminaldi)
[Petrazzi Pa] Petrazzi, Astolfo (1580-1653). Amore vincitore. Rome, GNAA di Palazzo Barberini. Among the unplayed objects are a violin and bow, lute, and music book. (exh Rome 2000-01: Colori della musica ... no. 19, p. 151 [ok color reproduction], as 1624-25)
[Riminaldi Pa] Riminaldi, Orazio (1586-1631). attr. Amor Vincitore. Dublin NGI. Unplayed: violin, cittern, lute. (B. Boydell. Music and Paintings in the National Gallery of Ireland. Dublin 1985. frontispiece [fine detail of the lute and the violin], p. 63; exh Rome 2000-01: Colori della musica ... no. 21, pp. 47 [splendid detail of lute and violin], 157 [fine color reproduction], as by Rutilio Manetti; Gazette des Beaux-Arts 69 [1967] 320)
[Strozzi Pa] Strozzi, Bernardo (1581-1644), Circle of. Amore vincitore. private collection. Includes an unplayed violin and lute. (exh Rome, 2000-01: Colori della musica ... no. 18, p. 149 [ok color reproduction], notes sale, Christie's, Rome, 5.VI.2000, no. 740, as attr. Riminaldi)
Months/Zodiac (January/Aquarius): [Tempesta Pr] Tempesta, Antonio (1555-1630). January/Aquarius from a Twelve Months series. etching. A kitchen scene. In the background a ball and banquet accompanied by musicians playing violin/viola, cello/double bass and lute. (IB vol. 37, no. 1334, p. 174 [ok reproduction])
[Toeput Pa] Toeput, Lodewijk (called Pozzosserato) (1550-1605). January. Providence RI, RISD. Includes a figure playing a lute. (exh RISD, 1968: Visions and Revisions. no. III/4) Preparatory drawing in New Haven, Yale University AG. (1968 exh no. III/3)
Months/Zodiac (February/Pisces): [L Bassano Pa] Bassano, Leandro (1557-1622). February (Carnival). Vienna KH. A costumed man with a lute accompanies his lady in an imaginary city square. (W. Arslan. I Bassano. Bologna 1931. p. 257 [poor reproduction]; G. Gerola. Bassano. Bergamo 1910. [Italia artistica, 59] p. not recorded; Die Sekundärgalerie des Kunsthistorischen Museums, II. Vienna 1971. no. 11 [ok reproduction])
[Tempesta Pr] Tempesta, Antonio (1555-1630). February/Pisces, from a Twelve Months series. etching. A Tournament in a town square. Two (?) comedians play lutes. (IB vol. 37, no. 1335, p. 175 [ok reproduction])
[Tempesta Pr] _______. February/Pisces, from a Twelve Months series. etching. A street scene during carnival, with serenading comedians singing and playing a lute. (IB vol. 37, no. 1347, p. 187 [ok reproduction]) Engraving (reversed) after by Aegidius Sadeler II (1568-1629). (IB vol. 72/1, no. 7201.150, p. 236 [ok reproduction])
Music/Poetry/Liberal Arts: [BI Rome 1624] Anon. Title-page border of Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger, Poematia et Carmina ... Volumen Primum. Rome, Soldi, 1624. engraving. The personifications of Poetry and Music present their works, Music also holding a partly visible chitarrone. (MGG VII, col. 675)
[Ciamberlano Pr] Ciamberlano, Ludovico, i.e.Luca, (1586-1641). The Arms of the Borghese Surrounded by the Seven Liberal Arts. engraving. The figures representing Music are copied from Frans Floris, and include a figure playing a lute. (IB vol. 44, no. 114, p. 175)
[Turchi Pa] Turchi, Alessandro (1578-1649). Allegory of the Arts (Painting, Music, Poetry and Sculpture). Rome, Galleria Colonna. Music is represented by a courtesan playing a violin. Not played: guitar, lute and music sheets. (A. Pigler. Barockthemen ... Budapest 1956. vol. II, p. 493 [poor reproduction])
Seasons (Summer): See also Allegory, Hearing (Five Senses).
Temperaments (Sanguine): [BI Padua 1611] Anon. "Sanguino per l'aria," from Cesare Ripa, Iconologia. Padua, Pietro Paolo Tozzi, 1611. p. 86. woodcut. The personification is a young man playing a lute. There is music on a music stand and a goat munching grapes. (facsimile: New York 1976)
[BI Padua 1618] Anon. "Sanguino per l'aria," from Caesare Ripa, Nuova iconologia. Padua, Pietro Paolo Tozzi, 1618. p. 90. The personification is a young man playing a lute. There is music on a music stand. A copy of the above. (Imago Musicae 7 [1990] 57)
[Schiaminossi Pr] Schiaminossi, Raffaello (1572/75-1622). "Vir sanguineus," from a series of The Passions and other Qualities of the Soul. engraving. The personification, a sort of cavalier, plays a lute. (sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 12.VII.1979; Burlington 121 [1979] Sept ad p. ii)
Vanitas: [Varotari Pa] Varotari, Alessandro (Il Padovanino) (1588-1648), attr. Allegory of Vanity. location unknown (ex Vienna KH). Includes a woman with a lute. (H. E. Wethey. The Paintings of Titian. Vol. III ... London 1975. pl. 187. Notes is based on Titian's Allegory of the Marchese del Vasto [Paris Louvre] [which has no lute]. pl. 68)
Vice/Virtue: [Pr Anon.] Anon. "Il Miserabile Fine di Quelli che seguono le meretrice"/The Miserable Fate of Those Who Consort with Prostitutes (Kunzle). pub. Rome, Calistus Ferrantes, 1611. engraving. The second panel -- "Preso il piacer con feste, canto è gioco,/ qui comincia la spesa è la rouina,/ vero principio del Tartareo fuoco" (Kunzle: "The pleasure of parties, singing and gaming bring expense and ruin, and finally the fire of Tartarus") -- includes a lute player. The ninth panel -- "Fuggi costei non li tornar piu mai/ fede non dar à false sue parole,/ ch' al fin gabbaro tu ti troverai." (Kunzle: "Returns to the prostitute with his ill-gotten gains") -- Includes a lute leaning against a table. (D. Kunzle. History of the Comic Strip. Berkeley 1973. vol. I, p. 276-77)
[Pr Anon.] Anon. (Venetian?), ca.1600. "Vita et fine meserabile [sic] delle meretrici" /Life and Miserable End of Prostitutes. engraving. The second panel -- "Ecco l[']esca meschine del peccato/ ecco dove impiegate il vostro amore/ cagio- d[']un sempiterno amaro scato" (Kunzle: "Here is the disgraceful end of your sinful loves, which will lead to bitter regrets in eternity") -- Includes lovers dining al fresco, accompanied by a man playing a lute. It's a traditional Children of Venus ensemble, rather like stock images of the Prodigal Son with the whores. (D. Kunzle. History of the Comic Strip. Berkeley 1973. vol. I, p. 275)
Other: [BI Padua 1611] Anon. "Consuetudine [Custom]," from Cesare Ripa, Iconologia. Padua, Pietro Paolo Tozzi, 1611. p. 11. woodcut. The personification has a viola (fretted), another stringed instrument (?), a lute and a woodwind instrument hanging in a bunch on his back. (facsimile: New York 1976)
[BI Padua 1618] Anon. "Consuetudine [Custom]," from Caesare Ripa, Nuova iconologia. Padua, Pietro Paolo Tozzi, 1618. p. 106. The personification has two stringed instruments, a lute and a woodwind instrument hanging in a bunch on his back. A copy of the above. (Imago Musicae 7 [1990] 55)
[BI Padua 1618] Anon. "Scandolo [Scandal]," from Caesare Ripa, Nuova iconologia. Padua, Pietro Paolo Tozzi, 1618. The personification holds a lute in one hand, a pack of cards in the other. At his feet there are a generic woodwind instrument and an open music book. (Imago Musicae 7 [1990] 58)
[Ciamberlano Pr] Ciamberlano, Ludovico, i.e. Luca, (1586-1641). The Arms of Pope Urban VIII in an Architectural Setting. engraving. Includes a row of six female figures playing musical instruments. One of them plays a lute. (IB vol. 44, no. 97, p. 158 [fair reproduction])
[Gatti Pr] Gatti, Oliviero (op.1602-1628). Magnificence and Nobility Supporting the Stemma of a Cardinal. engraving. Nobility (?) holds a lute. (IB vol. 41, no. 36, p. 50)
[Maganza Dr] Maganza, Alessandro (1556-p.1630). Allegory. Berlin SMPK KsK. drawing. Includes female figures singing and playing viol, harp and lute. unimp. (Vis. Coll. 372d.M27.40[a])
[Procaccini Dr] Procaccini, Cammillo (ca.1551/55-1629). An Allegorical Pocession. London, University, Witt Drawings. drawing. Several musicians, including one playing a lute. (Vis. Coll. 372d.P94.40[b])
[Tanzio Fr] Tanzio, Antonio d'Enrico (Tanzio da Varallo) (ca.1575-1635). Allegory. Novara, San Gaudenzio, Cappella dell'Angelo Custode (Cappella Nazzari). fresco. An allegorical female figure in a trompe l'oeil niche is beside a trophy which includes a violin (and bow), a lute, and a cornett. Her foot is on a music book. her banner says ADISTA, which is part of something else. (exh Turin, 1960: Tanzio da Varallo. pll. 90, 93, as 1627)
[BI Venice 1623] Anon. "Intentiores Acutius," from Giovanni Ferro, Teatro d'Imprese. Venice, Giacomo Sarzina, 1623. engraving. The emblem consists simply of a lute. (J. Hollander. The Untuning ot the Sky ... Princeton 1961. unnumbered pl. after p. 242. Notes that the lute "signifies high-tuned Tonus, moral, psychological, etc.")
See also Scenes of Everyday Life -- Indoor, Parties/Music Parties; Miscellaneous Figures, Musicians.
[BI Modena 1622] Anon. Portrait of Bellerofonte Castaldi, from his Capricci a Due Stromenti. Modena, the composer, 1622. engraving. He plays an arch-lute. (Early Music 4 [1976] 411. Identifies the lute as a tiorba.)
[Barbella Pa] Barbella (Barbelli), Giovanni Giacomo (1590-1656). Self-Portrait. Lovere, Accademia Tadini. He plays a guitar. There is also a tiny, 6-string lute as part of a little still life of fruit and bouquet of flowers. (L. Gallina. L'Accademia Tadini in Lovere. Bergamo [1957]. pl. 38)
[L Bassano Pa] Bassano, Leandro (1557-1622). Family Concert. Florence Uffizi. Includes as least five singers and women playing spinet and lute. (W. Arslan. I Bassano. Bologna 1931. p. 251 [poor reproduction]; Lesure pl. 47 [English], 54 [German] [ok color reproduction]; M. Praz. Conversation Pieces ... University Park PA 1971. p. 254 [fair reproduction]; exh Rome, 2000-01: Colori della musica ... no. 13, pp. 88 [large detail with the lute and the boy singer], 135 [color reproduction], as ca.1590. Notes that the elderly couple at the right are probably a later addition. Possibly the family of Giovanni Bassani.; MGG XII, Taf. 59/1; Arte lombarda 10/2 [1965] advt. at the back [color reproduction]; Simiolus 6 [1972/73] 100; Vis. Coll. 372.B298.70[a])
[L Bassano Pa] _______. Portrait of a Young Man Playing a Lute. location unknown. (W. Arslan. I Bassano. Bologna 1931. pl. LXXXIV; G. Gerola. Bassano. Bergamo 1910. [Italia artistica, 59] p. 125; Vis. Coll. 372.B298.50[c], as Coll. Prince Lubomirski, Cracow)
[L Bassano Pa] _______. Portrait of a Man Playing a Lute. private collection. (Imago musicae 4 [1987] 248)
[Biffi Pr] Biffi, Carlo (17th century). Portrait of Francesco Gabrielli (1588-1636?). engraving. Includes many unplayed musical instruments, among them a chitarrone. (IB vol. 41, no. 1, p. 367 [ok reproduction]; Mirimonde Astrologie. pl. 32 [ok reproduction]; Imago musicae 7 [1990] 88 [small reproduction])
[Bonzi Pa] Bonzi, Pietro Paolo (called il Gobbo dei Carracci) (1576-1636), attr. A Girl Playing a Lute beside a Table with Fruit. private collection. (exh Rome 2000-01: Colori della musica ... no. 22, p. 159 [fine color reproduction])
[Caravaggio Pa] Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da (1573-1610). Lute Player. St. Petersburg, Hermitage. There is also an unplayed violin. An allegory of the Five Senses. Colin Slim has identified the music as the bassus of the opening of four madrigals of Jacques Arcadelt (Ward FS). (B. Berenson. Caravaggio. His Incongruity and his Fame. London 1953. pl. 10 [poor reproduction]; K. Christiansen. "Some observations on the relationship between Caravaggio's two treatments of the 'Lute-player'." Burlington 132 [1990] 21-26; R. Hinks. Michelangelo Merisi de Caravaggio ... London 1953. cat. no. 11, pl. 11, as 1595/96; B. Joffroy. Le dossier de Caravage. Paris 1959. p. 41; R. Jullian. Caravage. Lyons 1961. pl.III/1; Pincherle p. 62; Scherliess Abb. 49, notes that the music is copied from a published book; K. Wolfe. "Caravaggio: Another 'Lute Player'." Burlington 127 [1985] 451-452, with reproductions of the Hermitage painting and a copy [ex Badminton; London art market 1969] p. 450; S. N. Vsevolozhskaia et al. Ital'ianiskaia zhivopis' XIII-XVIII vekov v sobranii Ermitazha. Leningrad 1964. pl. 123 [with color detail of the player's hands]; G. Bazin. Musée de l'Ermitage. Les grands maîtres de la peinture. Paris 1958. Identifies the partbook as Arcadelt's madrigal "Voi sapete ch'io v'amo"; exh Utrecht/Braunschweig 1986/87: Nieuw Licht op de Gouden Eeuw ...p. 22 [small reproduction, not exhibited]; exh New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985: The Age of Caravaggio. p. 229 [minuscule reproduction, not exhibited]; exh New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990: A Caravaggio Rediscovered: The Lute Player. Ed. K. Christiansen. no. 4, p. 29 [color reproduction]; exh New York, Knoedler, 1975: pp. 25 [clear color reproduction], 29 [detail]; exh Vienna, Palais Harrach, 2001: Dipingere la musica; Musik in der Malerei des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts. S. Ferino-Pagden, ed. p. 22 [large detail, with the lute, the open music book, and most of the violin, not exhibited]; Burlington 94 [1952] 11; Burlington 132 [1990] 9; Die Weltkunst 51 [1981] 2154; Musique-Images-Instruments 2 [1996] 12, considers the lute player to be singing; Musica calendar 1974: 3-16 November [fine color reproduction]; Vis. Coll. 372.C176.90[1]D) Copy (ex Badminton, Coll. Duke of Beaufort; London art market 1969) (see Wolfe, above; exh New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990: A Caravaggio Rediscovered: The Lute Player. Ed. K. Christiansen. p. 33 [not exhibited]; Burlington 132 [1990] 14 [small reproduction]; Vis. Coll. 372.C1761.90[e], as Caravaggio School)
[Caravaggio Pa] _______. Lute Player. private collection (formerly Rome, Palazzo Barberini). Similar to the above, but with unplayed instruments in the foreground: tiny spinet, violin (and bow), recorder. (exh New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990: A Caravaggio Rediscovered: The Lute Player. Ed. K. Christiansen. no. 5, front cover and p. 8 [fine color reproduction, cropped, without the spinet], frontispiece [splendid color detail of the lute head], p. 34 [fine color reproduction], 35 [splendid color detail including the partbook, the lute corpus, and part of the violin and the recorder]; exh Vienna, Palais Harrach, 2001: Dipingere la musica; Musik in der Malerei des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts. S. Ferino-Pagden, ed. p. 104 [small reproduction, not exhibited]; exh Rome 2000-01: Colori della musica ... p. 19 [small reproduction, not exhibited]; D. Mahon. "The singing 'Lute-player' by Caravaggio from the Barberini collection, painted for Cardinal Del Monte." Burlington 132 [1990] 5-20, this reproduced pp. 4 [ok reproduction], 16 [detail of lute, lute player and violin], 18 [detail of the spinet]; Scherliess Abb. 50, as by Carlo Saraceni; Burlington 132 [1990] January front cover [color reproduction]; Hamburger Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft 12 [1994] 62 [small reproduction]; Vis. Coll. 372.Sa71.90[a], as by Saraceni) Replica (London art market 1960). (Connoisseur 145 [1960] 203)
[Caravaggio School Pa] _______, School. Lute Player. Schleissheim, Neues Schloss. He plays some sort of an arch-lute (the painting has been repainted around the edges), perhaps originally a chitarrone. (B. Joffroy. Le dossier Caravage. Paris 1959. p. 255; exh Rome 2000-01: Colori della musica ... p. 21 [small reproduction, not exhibited]; Imago musicae 4 [1987] 250, with location Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen; Musica calendar, 1966: 6-19 Ferbuary [fine color reproduction]; Vis. Coll. 372.C176.90[z], 90[bb], as Caravaggio)
[Carracci School Pa] School of the Carracci (16th-17th century). Portrait of a Boy with a Lute. Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister. It is a very small lute and only the head is really visible. (1929 catalog, no. 316, p. 153)
[Agostino Carracci Pa] Carracci, Agostino (1557-1602), attr. Portrait of a Man Playing a Lute. Boston MFA. (exh New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990: A Caravaggio Rediscovered: The Lute Player. Ed. K. Christiansen. no. 11, p. 67 [fine reproduction], as by Bartolomeo Passerotti; Early Music 3 [1975] 352, as by Agostino Carracci, 1576)
[Agostino Carracci Pa] _______. Portrait of a Man Tuning a Lute. Naples MN. (Vis. Coll. 372.C321.5B. Identifies sitter as Horatio Bassano) Similar portrait (private collection). (E. Negro and M. Pirondini. La scuola dei Carracci ... [vol. II]. Modena 1995. p. 26 [color reproduction]. Suggests it may be a self-portrait.)
[Annibale Carracci Pa] Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609). Portrait of a Man Playing a Lute. Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister. His right hand looks like an inflated rubber glove. (H. C. Robbins Landon and J. J. Norwich. Five Centuries of Music in Venice. London 1991. p. 23 [ok color reproduction], identifies the sitter as the composer Giovanni Gabrieli; exh New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990: A Caravaggio Rediscovered: The Lute Player. Ed. K. Christiansen. p. 42 [small reproduction, not exhibited]; exh Vienna, Palais Harrach, 2001: Dipingere la musica; Musik in der Malerei des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts. S. Ferino-Pagden, ed. no. I.38, p. 161 [fine color reproduction], identifies the sitter as the actor Giovanni Gabriele, called il Siello; or as the "sonatore Mascheroni"; or perhaps as the composer Giovanni Gabrieli -- clearly one has no clue; G. Rudloff-Hille. Die Dresdner Gemäldegalerie. Munich 1960. p. 41; Early Music 3 [1975] 138, as 1593-94, identifies the sitter as the lutenist Giovanni Gabrieli; Vis. Coll. 372.C232.90[a]) Note his portrait drawing (Vienna Albertina), where the sitter is identified as a member of the Mascheroni family. (exh Washington NGA, 1984: Old Master Drawings from the Albertina)
[Annibale Carracci Pa] _______. Portrait of a Man Holding a Lute. London art market (1955). (Burlington 96 [1954] July ad p. xv; Connoisseur 135 [1955] May ad p. xxvi)
[L Carracci Pa] Carracci, Ludovico (1555-1619). Two Lute Players. Florence Uffizi. (Musica calendar 1967: cover [fine color reproduction]. Identifies the sitters as Ludovico and Annibale or Agostino Carracci.)
[Farinati Pa] Farinati (Farinato), Giovanni Battista (Il Zelotti) (1570-p.1605). Portrait of a Woman with a Lute. London art market (1913). (sale, Sotheby's, London, 12/III.1913 [ok reproduction])
[A Gentileschi Pa] Gentileschi, Artemisia (1593/1597-ca.1651/53). Portrait of a Woman Playing a Lute. Rome, Galleria Spada. (B. Joffroy. Le dossier caravage. Paris 1959. p. 83; A. Moir. The Italian Followers of Caravaggio. Cambridge MA 1967. fig. 65, as by Angelo Caroselli (?); Vis. Coll. 372.G2893.90[a])
[O Gentileschi Pa] Gentileschi, Orazio (1563-1639). A Young Woman Playing a Lute. Washington NGA (ex Liechtenstein Coll., Vienna). There are also a violin (and bow), recorder and cornett on the table. (M. Marangoni. Arte barocca. Florence 1973. fig. 166; A. Moir. The Italian Followers of Caravaggio. Cambridge MA 1967. fig. 81 [small reproduction]; R. Ward Bissell. Orazio Gentileschi ... University Park PA 1981. opp. p. 37 [fair color reproduction]; exh New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2002: Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi ... no. , p. ; exh New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990: A Caravaggio Rediscovered: The Lute Player. Ed. K. Christiansen. no. 15, p. 75 [ok color reproduction]; Gazette des Beaux-Arts 63 [February 1964] La chronique des Arts no. 1141, p. 50 [new acquisition]; Vis. Coll. 372.G2894.90[a])
[Grammatica Pa] Grammatica, Antiveduto (1571-1626). Portrait of a Woman as St. Cecilia. Madrid Prado. Includes a small organ (child/putto working the bellows), a violin on the wall and a lute on a table. (Mirimonde Sainte Cécile. pl. 29, as by Lionello Spada; A. E. Perez Sanchez. Pintura italiana del S. XVII en España. Madrid 1965. pl. 51; exh Seville, 1973: Caravaggio y el naturalismo español. no. 27)
[Grammatica Pa] _______, [attr.]. Portrait of a Man Playing a Lute. private collection. (exh SUNY Binghamton, 1969; cat. and pl. no. 24)
[Manfredi Pa] Manfredi, Bartolomeo (1580-1620). A Youth Playing a Lute. St. Petersburg Hermitage. (S. N. Vsevolozhskaia et al. Ital'ianskaia zhivopis' XIII-XVIII vekov v sobranii Ermitazha. Leningrad 1964. pl. 124; Ermitazh. Soobshcheniia 26 [1965] 19) Now attributed to Nicolas Tournier. See French 16th-17th section.
[Petrazzi Pa] Petrazzi, Astolfo (1580-1653), attr. A Woman Playing a Lute Beside a Still Life of Musical Instruments. Siena PN. Her lute is rather large. The still life includes a huge chitarrone. (exh Rome 2000-01: Colori della musica ... no. 23, p. 160 [fine color reproduction], as from the 1610's or 1620's. Calls her lute a tenor lute and the lute in the still life a tiorba.)
[Strozzi Pa] Strozzi, Bernardo (1581-1644). A Lute Player Tuning his Lute. Vienna KH. Genre portrait. (exh Vienna, Palais Harrach, 2001: Dipingere la musica; Musik in der Malerei des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts. S. Ferino-Pagden, ed. no. I.50, p. 176 [fine color reproduction]; H. C. Robbins Landon and J. J. Norwich. Five Centuries of Music in Venice. London 1991. p. 95 [small reproduction]; Newsweek. Great Museums of the World. Art History Museum. Vienna. New York 1969. p. 85 [color reproduction]; A. Stix. Meisterwerke aus Oesterreich. Zürich 1949. no. 106; 1965 catalog: Katalog der Gemäldegalerie I. Vienna 1965. pl. 69; exh Brussels 1947: Chefs d'oeuvre des Musées de Vienne. fig. 62; exh London, Tate Gallery, 1949: Art Treasures from Vienna. fig. 32 [ok reproduction]; Vis. Coll. 372.St87.90[g])
[BI Modena 1622] Anon. Title page of Bellerofonte Castaldi, Capricci a Due Stromenti. Modena, the composer, 1622. engraving. Includes two decorative chitarroni. (Fraenkel no. 84)
[BI Rome 1593] Anon. Title-page border of Giovanni Luca Conforti, Breve et facile maniera d'essercitarsi a far Passaggi. Rome 1593. engraving. Several musical instruments, including a lute. unimp. (MGG II, cols. 1627-28 [fair reproduction]; Early Music 15 [1987] 47 [ok reproduction])
[BI Siena 1607] Anon. Title-page border of Agostino Agazzari, Del Sonare sopra'l basso con tutti li stromenti. Siena, Domenico Falcin[i], 1607. engraving. Two of the four border trophies include lutes. unimp. (Fraenkel no. 76; )
[BI Venice 1588] Anon. Passe-partout title-page border of the Venetian printer Ricciardo Amadino. woodcut. With many unplayed musical instruments, including a lute; and angels playing fiddle/viola da braccio and lute. (Fraenkel no. 27, for Giovanni Maria Asola, Missae tres octonis vocibus. Venice 1588)
[BI Venice 1600] Anon. Title page of Fabritio Caroso da Sermoneta, Nobiltà di Dame. Venice, Presso il Muschio, 1600. engraving. Includes a musical trophy with a lute. (Early Music 14 [1986] 174 [ok reproduction]; MGG I, Taf. XLIV, with imprint date MDCV [1605])
[Pr Siena 1607] Decorative haute-de page border of Francesco Bianciardi, Breve Regola per imparar' a Sonare sopra il basso ... [Venice?] 1607. engraved single sheet. Three of the decorative trophies include lutes. The trophies are similar to those in the Agazzari [BI Siena 1607], above. (Haas Barock. p. 24 [fuzzy reproduction])
[feather picture Anon.] Anon, late-16th - early 17th century? "Schapin" and "Spineta." Montreal, McGill University Library. picture executed in birds' feathers. Includes a trophy of musical instruments, with a tiny lute, a lute and an arch lute. (A. Nicoll. The World of Harlequin ... Cambridge 1963. frontispiece [ok color reproduction])
Banquets: [Agostino Carracci Dr] Carracci, Agostino (1557-1602). Open-Air Banquet. Paris Louvre CdD. drawing. The diners are accompanied by a man playing a lute. (Vis. Coll. 372d.C231.91[a])
Boating Parties: See also Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor, Landscapes.
Carnival: See also Allegory, Months/Zodiac (February).
[Gb Bassano Pa] Bassano, Giambattista (1553-1613). Carnival. Vienna KH (?). Includes a man serenading a woman, playing his lute. (C. Jacini. Il Viaggio del Po, VII. Milan 1958. p. 827. Gives location as "Galerie.")
[L Bassano Pa] Bassano, Leandro (1557-1622). Venetian Carnival Scene. Berlin, Schloss Charlottenburg (?). Includes a lute player in the street. (Die Bauwerke und Kunstdenkmäler von Berlin. Schloss Charlottenburg. Berlin 1970. fig. 314)
[Toeput-de Jode Pr] Pieter I de Jode (1570-1634) after Lodewijk Toeput (called Pozzosserato) (1550-1605). Venetian Carnival. engraving. Includes a comedian playing a lute and figures on a terrace with women singing and playing spinet and lute, and men playing viola da braccio, lute and cornett. (Hollstein [Dutch] IX, p. 205 [poor reproduction]; van Dijck-Koopman. no. 38; Salmen Spielmann. Abb. 113; exh Pittsburgh, Frick Art Museum, 1986: Gardens of Earthly Delight ... Ed. K. J. Hellerstedt. p. 15 [minuscule reproduction])
Chamber Music (on Terrace, in Garden): [Toeput Pa] Toeput, Lodewijk (called Pozzosserato) (1550-1605). Musicians on a Terrace. Treviso MC Luigi Bailo. Women sing and play a spinet. Men sing and play viola da braccio, lute and flute. (van Dijck-Koopmann. no. 40; Dufourcq Musique. vol. I, p. 164; L. Gianoli and G. Mascherpa. La pittura e la musica. Milan 1967. pl. XXI [fine color reproduction]; R. Levi Pisetzky. Storia del costume in Italia, III. Milan 1966. op. p. 306 [fine color reproduction]; G. Mazzotti. Ville Venete. Rome 1957. p. 388; L. Menegozzi. Il Museo Civico di Treviso. Venice 1964. p. 259; C. Sartori, ed. Ricordi Enciclopedia della Musica. Milan 1963-4. vol. I, pl. 259 [ok reproduction]; L. Coletti. Guida del Museo Civico di Treviso. Treviso 1959. pl. 33 [fair reproduction]; Early Music 17 [1989] 169 [ok reproduction]; Musica Calendar 1970: 28 June - 11 July [fine color reproduction])
Fairs/Festivals: [Guercino Pa] Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) (1591-1666). Village Festival. Cento, Pinacoteca. Musicians play violin (?) and lute (?). unimp. (Vis. Coll. 372.G937.90[m])
Garden Parties/Picnics: See also New Testament, Parables -- Prodigal Son.
[Annibale Carracci Dr] Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609). Al fresco Concert. Paris Louvre CdD. drawing. A man plays a lute (that's all). (Vis. Coll. 372d.C232.8[h])
[Guercino Pa] Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) (1591-1666), attr. Garden with an Arborway. Cento, Pinacoteca. Includes a figure playing a colascione (?). (Vis. Coll. 372.G937.90[i])
[Toeput Pa] Toeput, Lodewijk (called Pozzosserato) (1550-1605). Scene in the Gardens of an Estate. location unknown. Includes a figure playing a lute. (Arte veneta 15 [1961] 112 [poor reproduction])
[Toeput Pa] _______. Scene in the Gardens of an Estate. private collection. Includes two lute players in the background. (Arte veneta 15 [1961] 122 [minuscule reproduction]) Variant (private collection, Treviso). (Arte veneta 15 [1961] 122) Cf. sale, Butkowski, Zürich, 1982 (Die Weltkunst 52 [1982] 3138 [minuscule, useless reproduction])
Landscapes: [Annibale Carracci Pa] Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609). Landscape. Berlin SMPK. Includes a woman playing a guitar and a man playing a lute. Note the drawing of Two Musicians, attr. Domenichino (Paris Louvre CdD), which seems related to this. (See Miscellaneous Figures, Musicians, below.) (V. Christoffel. Italienische Kunst. Die Pastorale. Vienna 1952. Taf. 43; T. H. Fokker. Roman Baroque Art. Oxford n.d. fig. 83 [fair reproduction]; Vis. Coll. 372.C232.8[c])
[Annibale Carracci Dr] _______. Landscape. private collection. Includes a woman playing a lute (left-handed). (exh New York, American Federation of Arts, 1968: Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Lester Francis Avnet. no. 10 [fine reproduction])
[Domenichino Pa] Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri) (1581-1641), attr. River Landscape with Boats. London NG (ex Coll. Denis Mahon). Includes a man in a boat playing a lute. (loan exh. T. Agnew & Sons, London, 1973: England and the Seicento ... Bolognese Paintings from British Collections. no. 23; Vis. Coll. 372.C232.8[d], as Annibale Carracci; Vis. Coll. 372.D710.80[a], as Domenichino) Copy by Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi (1606-1680) (Zaragoza, Museo [depot from Madrid, Prado]). (A. E. Perez Sanchez. Pintura italiana del S. XVII en España. Madrid 1965. pl. 78)
[Domenichino Pa] _______. Landscape with the Flight to Egypt. Paris Louvre. Includes a boatload of people being poled around in a river, serenaded by men playing violin and lute. (R. E. Spear. Domenichino. New Haven 1982. cat. no. 96, vol. 2, pl. 314 [fair reproduction], as 1625-30; Musée du Louvre. Dept. des Peintures. École italienne, XVIIe siècle. 1.Bologne. Ed. S. Loire. Paris 1996. inv. 800. p. 211 [fair reproduction]; Burlington 109 [1967] 341 [uselessly small reproduction]; Vis. Coll. 372.D710.22F[a])
[Guercino Pa] Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) (1591-1666). Landscape with Musicians. Florence Uffizi. Women sing and play bass viol and two recorders (?). Men play violin/viola and lute. unimp. (H. M. Brown and J. Lascelle. Musical Iconography: A Manual for Cataloging ... Cambridge MA 1972. p. 103 [poor reproduction]; C. Sartori, ed. Ricordi Enciclopedia della Musica. Milan 1963-4. vol. I, pl. 225 [detail]; exh Vienna, Palais Harrach, 2001: Dipingere la musica; Musik in der Malerei des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts. S. Ferino-Pagden, ed. no. IV.17, p. 256 [small color reproduction]; exh Bologna, Palazzo dell'Archiginnasio, 1968: Il Guercino. Ed. D. Mahon. fig. 20 [poor reproduction], as ca.1617; Vis. Coll. 372.G937.8[a])
[Reni Pa] Reni, Guido (1575-1642). Landscape. Rome, Palazzo Rospigliosi. Includes a woman in a boat singing, accompanied by a man playing an arch-lute. (V. Golzio. Palazzi Romani ... Bologna 1971. fig. 216 [useless reproduction])
[Viola Circle Pa] Viola, Giovanni Battista (1576-1622), Circle of. A River Landscape. private collection. Figures in a boat being cast off play chitarrone and tambourine (?). (exh Cleveland, Museum of Art, 1971: Caravaggio and his Followers. Ed. R. E. Spear. pl. 17)
Pageants: [CI Florence 1616] Jacques Callot (1592-1635) after Giulio Parigi (1571-1635). The Muses on Parnassus, from Andrea Salvadori's Guerra di Bellezza, Florence, October 1616. etching. One of the Muses plays a lute. (Haas Barock. p. 66; MGG I, Taf. LII/1)
[CI Florence 1617] Jacques Callot (1592-1635) after Giulio Parigi (1571-1635). "Terzo Intermedio dove si vide venire Amore con tvtta sva Corte, a divider la battaglia," from La liberazione di Tirreno (music by Marco da Gagliano), performed for the wedding of Catherine de'Medici and Duke Ferdinand Gonzaga of Mantua. etching. There are numerous musicians in clouds and along the sides, several of whom play lutes. (G. Sadoul. Jacques Callot ... [Paris] 1969. p. 77; Art Bulletin 64 [1982] 211 [useless reproduction])
Street Scenes: See also Allegory, Months/Zodiac (February); Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor, Carnival.
[BI Venice 1597] Anon. Il Dottore Performs a Serenade, burlesque scene from act III, scene ii, of Orazio Vecchi's madrigal comedy L'Amfiparnasso. Venice, Gardano, 1597. woodcut. A street scene with Graziano beneath a window, singing to his lute. (Haas Barock p. 75 [tiny reproduction]; A. Nicoll. The World of Harlequin ... Cambridge 1963. p. 83. Identifies the figures as Zanni, Pantalone and Graziano; MgB III/9, p. 204)
[BI Venice 1610] Giacomo Franco (1550-1620) after Doglioni. Entry of Charlatans, Buffoons, Jugglers, Singers and Masquers in St. Mark's Square, Venice, from Franco Forma, Habiti d'uomini et donne venetiane. Venice 1610. engraving. Includes a lute player (a comedian dressed as a woman). (Haas Barock. p. 133; Komma p. 134; H. C. Robbins Landon and J. J. Norwich. Five Centuries of Music in Venice. London 1991. p. 73 [ok reproduction]; MgB III/9, Abb. 146 [ok reproduction]; Early Music 13 [1985] 439 [ok reproduction]; Early Music 19 [1991] 445 [ok reproduction])
Tournaments: See also Allegory, Months/Zodiac (February).
Balls: See also Allegory, Months/Zodiac (January).
[Franco Pr] Giacomo Franco (1550-1620). engraving. Eleven couples dance, accompanied by musicians playing bass viol, violin and lute. (MgB III/9, Abb. 64)
[Pa Versailles] Venetian, late 16th century. Ball in Venice. Versailles, Musée du Château. The dancers are accompanied by musicians playing violin, double bass and lute (and perhaps more). (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 80 [1972] 318 [unhelpful reproduction])
Inn Interiors: [Guercino Dr] Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) (1591-1666). Tavern Scene with Mummers. Oxford Ashmolean. drawing. Musicians play violin, viol (?), lute and woodwind (recorder?). unimp. (N. Turner and C. Plazzotta. Drawings by Guercino from British Collections. London 1991. fig. 185; Ashmolean Museum. Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, vol. II: Italian Schools. Oxford 1956. no. 861, pl.CXC; Burlington 128 [1986] March supp. p. 36, as A tavern scene; Hamburger Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft 12 [1994] 61; Vis. Coll. 372d.G937.90[I])
Music Lessons: [Guercino Pa] Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) (1591-1666). A Music Lesson. Milan, Castello Sforzesco. Four boys sing. On a shelf against the wall there are a violin, a lute and a trumpet. very unimp. (G. G. Belloni. Il Castello Sforzesco di Milano. Milan 1966. no. 233) Engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi (1729-1815). (MGG XII, Taf. 61/1; Musica calendar 1973: January 21-February 3 [fine reproduction]) Another version (without the trumpet) (Windsor Castle, Royal Library) (Hamburger Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft 12 [1994] 63 [fair reproduction]; Musique-Images-Instruments 2 [1996] 13 [minuscule reproduction])
Operatic/Theatrical Scenes/Pageants: See also Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor, Street Scenes.
[CI Florence 1588] Epifano d'Alfano after Bernardo Buontalenti (ca.1523-1608). The Sixth and final Interlude from La Pellegrina, from the festivities for the marriage of Duke Ferdinando de'Medici and Christine of Lorraine, Florence, 4 May 1588. engraving/etching. With musicians on "clouds," including a lute player. (Bowles Musical Ensembles. fig. 53)
[CI Florence 1608] Remigio Cantagallina (ca.1582-ca.1630) after Giulio Parigi (1571-1635). "Giardino di Calipso Intermedio terzo" from the opera Il Giudizio di Parigi, performed during the festivities on the occasion of the marriage of Cosimo de' Medici and the Hapsburg Archduchess Maria Maddelena, Florence, 1608. etching. Includes musicians playing harp and lute. (IB vol. 44, no. 15, p. 218; G. Sadoul. Jacques Callot ... Paris 1969. p. 129 [fine reproduction])
[CI Florence 1608] _______. "Nave di Amerigo Vespucci Intermedio Quarto." There are musicians on "clouds," one of whom plays a huge lute. (IB vol. 44, no. 16, p. 219; R. Strong. Splendour at Court. Boston 1973. pp. 210-211 [ok reproduction]; The New Grove vol. 9, p. 268)
[CI Florence 1608] _______. "Tenpio [sic] della Pace Intermedio Sesto." On the central cloud there are Apollo and the Muses. One of the Muses plays a lute. Also, among the musicians on stage, left, there is a lutenist. (IB vol. 44, no. 18, p. 221; Bowles Musical Ensembles. fig. 68, 68a [fuzzy, out-of-focus detail]; R. Strong. Splendour at Court. p. 209 [useless reproduction]; Burlington 115 [1973] 559 [not helpful for details])
[CI Florence 1608] _______. Pageant-Barges of the Tuscan River Gods in the Water Show, The Triumph of the Argonauts. Female figures on a shell-shaped barge play viola and tiny lute. (Bowles Musical Ensembles. fig. 69)
[CI Florence 1608] _______. Pageant-Barge of the River God Glaucus Carrying Musicians. One of the musicians plays a lute-like instrument. (Bowles Musical Ensembles. fig. 70)
[CI Florence 1616] Jacques Callot (1592-1635) after Giulio Parigi (1571-1635). "Terzo Intermedio dove si vide venire Amore con tutta la sua Corte a divider la battaglia, performed in Carnival, Florence, 1616. etching. Musicians, in rows along each side of the stage, include at least two lute players. (MGG I, Taf. XLVII)
[Guercino Dr] Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) (1591-1666). A Theatrical Performance. London BM 1937-10-8-1-F.f. 2-143. drawing. Musicians play viola da braccio (?) and lute. (Vis. Coll. 372d.G937.90[c])
Parties/Music Parties: [Confortini Dr] Confortini, Jacopo (doc.1617). Musicians Playing to a Dining Couple. Florence Uffizi GdD 1847S. drawing. They play a violin, a huge chitarrone and a wind instrument. (Burlington 111 [1969] 690; Vis. Coll. 372d.R73640.90[a], as manner of Matteo Rosselli) Another version (sketchier) (ex Geiger Collection, Venice) (Catalog of the Geiger Collection. Vienna 1948 [more than 20 years after the collection was sold]. no. 33, p. 63, as attr. B. Poccetti; Burlington 112 [1970] 313, and note correspondence pp. 399-400) Another version (with a flute player for the woodwind instrument) (Weimar, Print Room). (Burlington 112 [1970] 398). A study, with the chitarrone player and the violin player twice, with signature of Giovanni da San Giovanni (Coll. P. de Boer, Amsterdam). (Burlington 112 [1970] 398) Copy (Edinburgh NGS) (K. Andrews. National Gallery of Scotland. Catalogue of Italian Drawings. London 1968. vol. II, p. 56 [small reproduction])
[Grammatica Pa] Grammatica, Antiveduto (1571-1626). The Lute Player (fragment of a Music Party?). Turin, Galleria Sabauda. He plays an archlute or small chitarrone. On the table in front of him a guitar, recorder (?--very partly visible) and tambourine. (V. Golzio. Seicento e settecento. 3/Turin 1968. [Storia dell'arte classica e italiana, 4] p. 1353; R. Levi Pisetzky. Storia del costume in Italia, III. Milan 1966. p. 14 [ok reproduction]; A. Moir. The Italian Followers of Caravaggio. Cambridge MA 1967. fig. 115 [fair reproduction]; C. Sartori, ed. Ricordi Enciclopedia della Musica. Milan 1963-4. vol. I, pl. opp. p. 96 [color reproduction]; exh Cleveland Museum of Art, 1971: Caravaggio and his Followers. Ed. R. E. Spear. no. 33, as ca.1610-15; exh Vienna, Palais Harrach, 2001: Dipingere la musica; Musik in der Malerei des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts. S. Ferino-Pagden, ed. p. 32 [fair reproduction, not exhibited]; exh Rome 2000-01: Colori della musica ... p. 80 [fair reproduction, not exhibited]; 1971 catalog, fig. 368, pl. 139, as ca. 1615; Early Music 4 [1976] 164 [with detail of the lute player's left hand], identifies the lute as a chitarrone francese; MGG XIII, Taf. 14 [ok reproduction]; Vis. Coll. 372.C178.90[i]) Copy: location unknown, showing what is assumed to be a missing portion at the left, with a woman playing a harpsichord and a man playing a flute. Actually, it is rather pastiche-like and may not represent a complete version of the Turin painting. (exh Rome 2000-01: Colori della musica ... p. 79 [small reproduction, not exhibited]; exh New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990: A Caravaggio Rediscovered: The Lute Player. Ed. K. Christiansen. p. 27 [not exhibited]; Cleveland 1971 exh fig. 25 [not exhibited])
[Manfredi Pa] Manfredi, Bartolomeo (1580-1620). Drinking and Musical Party. Los Angeles, County Museum of Art. Includes a singer and a cavalier playing a lute. This painting is considered the basis for the Tournier painting in Le Mans, but it looks more like a copy. The lute is especially poorly depicted, having lost most of its pegs. It is the same lute player as in the paintings in the Uffizi and in the Waddingham collection. (exh Vienna, Palais Harrach, 2001: Dipingere la musica; Musik in der Malerei des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts. S. Ferino-Pagden, ed. p. 34 [small reproduction, not exhibited]; exh Rome, 2000-01: Colori della musica ... p. 79 [small reproduction, not exhibited]; exh Cremona, 1987: Dopo Caravaggio ... no. 5, p. 67 [fair color reproduction]) Engraved by Jean Baptiste Haussart (1680-1749). (R. Lamb and E. G. Mittelberger. In Celebration of Wine and Life. New York 1974. p. 229) Another version, London art market (1996). (exh London, Trafalgar Galleries, 1976: In the Light of Caravaggio. no. 1, p. 2 [color reproduction] Claims this as the original for the Tournier copy in Le Mans, but, like the Los Angeles painting, it looks like a copy. The lute is again poorly depicted, having lost most of its pegs; Burlington 116 [1974] 605 [poor reproduction]; Burlington 138 [1996] September, inside front cover [dark color reproduction])
[Manfredi Pa] _______. Three Figures. private collection (Malcolm Waddingham Collection). One or two of them sing and the third plays a lute. (exh Vienna, Palais Harrach, 2001: Dipingere la musica; Musik in der Malerei des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts. S. Ferino-Pagden, ed. p. 37 [not exhibited])
[Toeput Dr] Toeput, Lodewijk (called Pozzosserato) (1550-1605). Music Party. Düsseldorf art market (1969). drawing. Men sing, conduct and play a lute and a woodwind instrument. A woman holds a bowed stringed instrument. unimp. (C. G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, cat. no. 52 [1969] no. 89)
Angels: See also Saints, St. Cecilia; Decorative Elements; Miscellaneous Figures, Putti.
[Dr private collection] N. Italian, early 17th century. Angel Concert in Honor of the Trinity. private collection. Three of the angels play lutes. (exh Zürich, Kunsthaus,1967: Handzeichnungen alter Meister aus Schweizer Privatbesitz. no. 83)
[BI Venice 1595] Anon. Title-page border of Giovanni Croce, Triaca musicale. Venice, G. Vincenti, 1595. woodcut. Angels in the corners play positive organ, regal, viola da braccio and lute. (Fraenkel no. 24, edition of 1596; MGG II, cols. 813-14)
[BI Venice 1601] Anon. Title-page border of Adriano Banchieri, Il Metamorfosi musicale. Venice, Ricciardo Amadino, 1601. woodcut. Includes a vignette with a small organ with two angels playing lutes on its frame. (Fraenkel no. 69)
[Fr Cassano d'Adda] Anon., late-16th - early 17th century. Angel Musicians. Cassano d'Adda, S. Dionigi, apse. fresco. One of the angels lays a lute. Elsewhere there is another angel with a lute. (M. L. Gatti Peres. Studi e ricerche nel territorio della provincia di Milano. 1967. pp. 50-51, as between 1590 and 1620)
[Me Jaen Cathedral] Italian, early 17th century. The Chapel of St. Cecilia. Jaen (Spain), Cathedral. reliquary. St. Cecilia and wingless angels, one of whom plays a lute. (Mirimonde Sainte Cécile. pl. 14 a-c)
[Albani Pa] Albani, Francesco (1578-1660). Apparition of Christ to the Virgin. private collection. Angels above sing, play lute, and hold a tiny cornett. (E. Negro and M. Pirondini. La scuola dei Carracci ... [vol. II]. Modena 1995. p.39 [poor reproduction])
[G Apollonio Pa] Apollonio, Giacomo (Jacopo) (ca.1583-1654). Coronation of the Virgin. Bassano, Orfanotrofio Maschile. Several musical angels, including one playing a lute. (Arte veneta 17 [1963] 176 [fair reproduction])
[Argenti Pa] Argenti, Giovanni Battista (fl.ca.1590-ca.1625). Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints (1600). Trogir (Trau), S. Peter. An angel at the foot of the throne plays a lute. (Arte veneta 36 [1982] 221)
[Bonone Dr] Bonone, Carlo (1569-1632). An Angel Playing a Lute. private collection. drawing. (exh Bremen, Kunsthalle, 1968: Unbekannte Handzeichnungen alter Meister, 15. - 18. Jahrhundert: Sammlung Freiherr Koenig-Fachsenfeld. no. 16, p. 27 [ok reproduction])
[Borgianni Pa] Borgianni, Orazio (1578-1616), attr. The Vision of St. Francis (Presenting the Christ Child to the Virgin). Sezze Romano, Municipio. Angels play positive organ, violin, lute and cornett. (A. Moir. The Italian Followers of Caravaggio. Cambridge MA 1967. fig. 151 [fair reproduction])
[Boscoli Dr] Boscoli, Andrea (1550-1606). Holy Family with St. Elizabeth. Paris Louvre. drawing. Includes an angel with a vaguely sketched lute. (Vis. Coll. 372.B652.35[a])
[Brizio Dr] Brizio, Francesco (ca.1574-1623). Angel Concert. Florence Uffizi. drawing. Seven musical angels, including one playing a lute. vague sketch. (Vis. Coll. 372d.B775.36[a])
[Brizio Pa] _______. Virgin and Child with Saints and Angels. Hamburg KH. An angel beside the Virgin and Child plays a lute (and sings?). In a gallery at the right two angels sing accompanied by an angel blowing a very partly visible wind instrument (a straight cornett?). (E. Negro and M. Pirondini. La scuola dei Carracci ... [vol. I]. Modena 1994. p. 73)
[C Caliari Pa] Caliari, Carletto (1570-1596). Adoration of the Shepherds. Brescia, S. Afra. Several musical angels, including one playing a lute. (A. Morassi. Brescia. Rome n.d. [Catalogo delle cose d'arte e di antichità d'Italia] p. 28 [poor reproduction]; Arte veneta 21 [1967] 112 [small reproduction])
[C Caliari Pa] _______, attr. Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints and Donors. Verona, Museo del Castelvecchio. Includes an angel playing a lute. (Burlington 113 [1971] 731 [fair reproduction])
[G Caliari Pa] Caliari, Gabrieli (1568-1631). The Virgin with St. Anne. Liettoli (Padua), Parrocchiale. Includes a prominent angel tuning a lute (back view). (C. Donzelli and G. M. Pilo. I pittori del seicento Veneto. Florence 1967. pl. 109)
[Cardi Dr] Cardi, Ludovico (called il Gigoli) (1559-1613). Assumption of the Virgin. London BM. drawing. Vaguely sketched angels, including one playing a lute. Unimportant, unless one is interested in how little it takes to suggest at lute. N. Turner and C. Plazzotta. Drawings by Guercino from British Collections. London 1991. fig. 185; Burlington 130 [1988] 881)
[G Carlone Fr] Carlone, Giovanni (1584-1630). The Descent of the Holy Spirit. Genoa, Chiesa dell'Annunziata. fresco. Includes many musical angels, at least two playing lutes. unimp. (M. Marangoni. I Carloni. Florence 1925. figs. 9-10 [fair reproductions])
[G B Carlone Fr] _______. Coronation of the Virgin. Genoa, Chiesa dell'Annunziata. fresco. Includes panels with musical angels. One plays a lute. (M. Marangoni. I Carloni. Florence 1925. fig. 28 [poor reproduction])
[G Carlone Fr] _______. The Ascension of Christ. Genoa, Chiesa dell'Annunziata. fresco. The Ascension is surrounded by four panels of musical angels, including at least two playing lutes. (M. Marangoni. I Carloni. Florence 1925. fig. 9 [poor reproduction])
[Annibale Carracci Pa] Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609). The Baptism of Christ. Bologna, S. Gregorio. Several young musical angels, including one playing a lute. (R. Bacchelli et al. Emilia Romagna. Milan [1975?]. p. 366 [ok color reproduction]; Vis. Coll. 372.C232.23B)
[Annibale Carracci Pa] _______. Coronation of the Virgin. New York Metropolitan (ex Coll. Denis Mahon). Several musical angels, including two playing lutes. (exh New York Metropolitan, 1985: The Age of Caravaggio. no. 26, p. 117; Burlington 139 [1992] 190; Connoisseur 32 [1953] 6; Gazette des Beaux-Arts 81 [February 1973] La Chronique des arts no. 1249, p. 121; Vis. Coll. 372.C232.31C)
[Annibale Carracci Pa] _______. Adoration of the Shepherds. Orléans MBA. With six musical angels, including one playing a lute. (exh New York Metropolitan, 1985: The Age of Caravaggio. no. 27, p. 119 [fine color reproduction]; Burlington 109 [1967] 349 [small reproduction])
[Annibale Carracci Pa] _______. Nativity. Paris Louvre. Includes an angel playing a lute (perhaps more). (Vis. Coll. 372.C232.22N)
[Annibale Carracci Pa] _______, attr. St. John the Baptist Kneeling in the Wilderness. Sarasota FL Ringling (ex Holford Coll., Dorchester House). Angels play violin, lute and triangle. unimp. (G. L. Holford. The Holford Collection, Dorchester House. Oxford 1927. pl. LXXII, as Carracci Workshop; 1949 catalog, p. 104, as attr. Annibale Carracci)
[Annibale Carracci Dr] _______. Virgin and Child above the City of Bologna. Chatsworth, Coll. Duke of Devonshire. drawing. A study for the altarpiece of the Cappella di Palazzo Caprari, Bologna (Oxford, Christ Church). Includes an angel playing a lute. very unimp. (exh Bologna, Palazzo Archiginnasio, 1956: Mostra dei Carracci -- Disegni. Ed. D. Mahon. fig. 34; Vis. Coll. 372d.C232.34[c]D, as 1593-94)
[Annibale Carracci Pa] _______. Adoration of the Shepherds. no location. Includes angels (very faint) playing violin, lute and cornett (?). (Vis. Coll. 372.C232.22A)
[L Carracci Pa] Carracci, Ludovico (1555-1619). Virgin and Child with Saints and Angels (La Madonna dei Bargellini) (1588). Bologna PN. Angels sing and play a lute. (H. Bodmer. Ludovico Carracci. Burg bei Magdeburg 1939. pl. 21; A. Bovero. Immagini dell'arte italiana attraverso i secoli, V. Turin 1966. p. 69; TCI. Bologna e Romagna. Milan 1964. [Attraverso l'Italia. N. S.] pl. VI; Bologna. Pinacoteca Nazionale. Bologna 1967. no. 192/3 [fine color detail]; Vis. Coll. 372.C233.34[b]) Study for this (Paris Louvre CdD). (H. Bodmer. Ludovico Carracci. Burg bei Magdeburg 1939. pl. 112) Drawing after it by Gaetano Gandolfi (1734-1802) (private collection). (Le collezione d'arte della Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna. I disegni. Bologna 1973. vol. I, pl. 28) Engraved by Francesco Rosaspina (1762-ca.1841). (G. Bertelà and G. and S. Ferrara. Incisori bolognesi ed emiliani del secolo XVII. Bologna 1973. vol. II, no. 674)
[L Carracci Pa] _______. Glory of Angel Musicians. Bologna, S. Paolo. Many musical angels, including two playing lutes. (H. Bodmer. Ludovico Carracci. Burg bei Magdeburg 1939. pl. 92, as ca. 1616; Komma p. 109; K. Meyer Baer. Music of the Spheres ... Princeton 1970. p. 164; C. Sartori, ed. Ricordi Enciclopedia della Musica. Milan 1963-4. vol. I, pl. 94; Vis. Coll.372.C233.39P)
[L Carracci Pa] _______. The Apostles at the Tomb of the Virgin. Bologna, Chiesa del Corpus Domini. Angels (faintly depicted) play tenor viol and a woodwind instrument and tune a lute. (H. Bodmer. Ludovico Carracci. Burg bei Magdeburg 1939. pl. 46 [fair reproduction], as 1601; Vis. Coll. 372.C233.38[a])
[L Carracci Pa] _______. Annunciation to the Virgin. Bologna, S. Pietro Metropolitana. Angels play cello, two lutes and woodwind instrument. (H. Bodmer. Ludovico Carracci. Burg bei Magdeburg 1939. pl. 96; Vis. Coll. 372.C233.31An[a])
[L Carracci Pa] _______. Jacob's Dream. Bologna PN. Includes an angel playing a lute. (H. Bodmer. Ludovico Carracci. Burg bei Magdeburg 1939. pl. 79, as 1601; Vis. Coll. 372.C233.11Ja)
[L Carracci Pa] _______. Nativity. Milan, Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Abbate. Six musical angels, including two playing lutes. unimp. (Arte illustrata IV/43/44 [Sept.-Oct. 1971] 54, as ca.1611-12) There is a preparatory drawing for this in the Uffizi, Florence. unimp. (Arte illustrata IV/43/44 [Sept.-Oct. 1971] 55 [fine color reproduction])
[L Carracci Pa] _______. Assumption of the Virgin. Modena, Pinacoteca Estense. Seven musical angels, including one playing a lute. (H. Bodmer. Ludovico Carracci. Burg bei Magdeburg 1939. pl. 74, as ca.1605-08; R. Pallucchini. I dipinti della galleria Estense di Modena. Rome 1945. no. 271, fig. 89, as ca.1605-08; Vis. Coll. 372.C233.31As)
[L Carracci Pa] _______. Angel Concert. Piacenza, Duomo, Presbyterium. ceiling fresco. This is the one with the trombone. Includes an angel playing a lute. (H. Bodmer. Ludovico Carracci. Burg bei Magdeburg 1939. pl. 66, as 1606-09)
[L Carracci Pa] _______. Angel Concert. as above. This is the one with the double bass and the triangle. Includes an angel playing a lute. (H. Bodmer. Ludovico Carracci. Burg bei Magdeburg 1939. pl. 66)
[L Carracci Pa] _______. Coronation of the Virgin. as above. Angels at the left sing and play a cello. Angels at the right sing and play a lute. (H. Bodmer. Ludovico Carracci. Burg bei Magdeburg 1939. pl. 66)
[Cavedone Dr] Cavedone, Giacomo (Jacopo) (1577-1660). Two Saints and Two Angels. Florence Uffizi. drawing. The angels play lute and flute. unimp. (Vis. Coll. 372d.C317.38F)
[Celio Dr] Celio, Gaspare (1571-1640). An Angel with a Plucked-Stringed Instrument. Florence, Uffizi, no. 1415. drawing. It is sort of a lute, with a lute corpus and a flat peg disc. (Vis. Coll. 372d.C331.36[b])
[Celio Pa] _______. Musical Angels. Rome, S. Francesco a Ripa. Includes a lute player. unimp. (Vis. Coll. 372.C331.36[a])
[Celio Pa] _______. Glory of the Heavens. Rom, Il Gesù, Cappella della Sacra Famiglia. Angels play a sort of viola da braccio and a lute. (Vis. Coll. 372.C331.19[a]1)
[Cesari Dr] Cesari, Giuseppe (Il Cavaliere d'Arpino) (1568-1640). An Angel Playing a Lute. Berlin SMPK KsK. drawing. The lute has a sort of theorbo head and is single-strung. (Vis. Coll. 372d.C3391.36[a])
[Cesari Pa] _______. The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine. London, Apsley House. Includes a prominent angel playing a lute. (Vis. Coll. 372.C3391.38M)
[Corenzio Dr] Corenzio, Belasario (ca.1560-p.1640). Adoration of the Child. Edinburgh NGS. drawing. Angels play tenor viol, harp and lute. (K. Andrews. The National Gallery of Scotland, Catalogue of Italian Drawings. London 1968. fig. 313 [minuscule reproduction])
[G B Crespi Pa] Crespi, Giovanni Battista (Il Cerano) (1557-1633). Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, with St. Gaetano Thiene. Loreto, Museo della S. Case. Several musical angels, including one playing a lute. (Inventario degli oggetti d'arte d'Italia, VIII: Provincie di Ancona et Ascoli Piceno. Piceno 1936. p. 128 [poor reproduction])
[G B Crespi Pa] _______. Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints ("Madonna del Rosario"). Milan Brera. A child angel tunes a lute. (G. Mazzariol and T. Pignatti. Storia dell'arte italiana, III. Milan 1961. p. 299; Vis. Coll. 372.C8635.34[a])
[G B Crespi Pa] _______. Adoration of the Shepherds. Turin Sabauda. Angels play violin and lute. (Galleria Sabauda. Maestri italiani. Ed. N. Gabrielli. Turin 1971. pl. 133)
[G B Crespi Pa] _______. Assumption of the Virgin. London art market (1927). Numerous musical angels, including one which may play a lute. (Pallavicini sale, Knight, Frank and Rutley, London, 27.V.1927 [fair reproduction])
[Damaskinos Pa] Damaskinos (Damasceno), Michele (doc.1577). Madonna del rosario. Conversano, Chiesa di S. Benedetto. Angels play positive organ, viola da braccio, lute, and perhaps one more musical instrument. unimp. (M. Stella Calò. La pittura del cinquecento e del primo seicento in terra di Bari. Bari 1969. pl. 14)
[Damaskinos Pa] _______. Madonna del rosario. Molfetta, Chiesa di S. Maria dei Martiri. Angels play positive organ, two viole da braccio and lute (they are a bit clearer than the ones in the painting in Conversano). (M. Stella Calò. La pittura del cinquecento e del primo seicento in terra di Bari. Bari 1969. pl. 14)
[Domenichino Pa] Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri) (1581-1641). The Martyrdom of St. Agnes. Bologna PN. Several musical angels, including one playing a lute. (R. E. Spear. Domenichino. New Haven 1982. cat. no. 63, vol. II, pl. 229, as ca.1619-1622/25; La Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna. Bologna 1967. p. 322 [tiny reproduction]; Mirimonde Sainte Cécile. pl. 55; J. Pope-Hennessy. The Drawings of Domenichino in the Collection of H. M. the King at Windsor Castle. London 1948. p. 32 [poor reproduction]; G. Zucchini. Bologna. Bergamo n.d. [Italia artistica, 76] p. 149 [small reproduction]; Vis. Coll. 372.D710.38Ag) Engraved by Giuseppe-Maria Mitelli (1634-1718). (IB vol. 42, no. 20, p. 294) Engraved by Francesco Rosaspina (1762-ca.1841). (G. Bertelà and G. and S. Ferrara. Incisori bolognesi ed emiliani del secolo XVII. Bologna 1973. vol. II, no. 718)
[Domenichino Fr] _______. Coronation of the Virgin. Fano, Cathedral, Nolfi Chapel. fresco. In poor condition. Angels play several musical instruments, including a lute. (R. E. Spear. Domenichino. New Haven 1982. cat. no. 56.xiv, vol. 2, pl. 211 [fair reproduction], as 1618-19. Vol. I, p. 206 notes "little of Domenichino's modelling remains.")
[Frigimelica Pa] Frigimelica, Francesco (m.1621). Virgin and Child with Saints and Angels. Castion, Chiesa Arcipretale. Angels play positive organ, viol, and two lutes. very unimp. (Vis. Coll. 372.F91 34[a])
[Gandini Fr] Gandini, Antonio (1565-1630). Glory of SS Faustino and Giovita. Brescia, S. Faustino Maggiore. fresco. Six musical angels, including one playing a lute. unimp. (A. Morassi. Brescia. Rome n.d. [Catalogo delle cose d'arte e di antichità d'Italia] p. 209, as by Antonio and Bernardino Gandini [1587-1651]; Vis. Coll. 372.G52.4P)
[O Gentileschi Pa] Gentileschi, Orazio (1563-1639). Circumcision. Ancona, Chiesa del Gesù. Angels above play organ and flute (left) and lute (right). unimp. (A. Moir. The Italian Followers of Caravaggio. Cambridge MA 1967. fig. 37 [fair reproduction]; TCI. Marche. Milan 1953. [Attraverso l'Itaila, 19] p. 29 [fair reproduction]; exh Urbino, 1953: Antichi dipinti restaurati dalla soprintendenza alle gallerie delle marche. Ed. P. Zampetti. pll. XV [detail of left], XVI [detail of right]; Inventario degli oggetti d'arte d'Italia, VIII: Provincie di Ancona et Ascoli Piceno. Piceno 1936. p. 330)
[Giovanni di San Giovanni Dr] Giovanni di San Giovanni (1592-1636). Sheet of Studies of Angel Musicians. Haarlem, Teyler Museum. drawing. One plays violin, the other, lute. unimp, but lively drawing. (M. von Platen, ed. Queen Christina of Sweden. Documents and Studies. Stockholm 1966. p. 96)
[Grammatica Pa] Grammatica, Antiveduto (1571-1626). St. Cecilia Singing between Two Musical Angels. Lisbon MNAA. The angels play harp (left) and lute (right). On a table in front of them there are a violin, little single-course lute, recorder and tambourine. (Mirimonde Sainte Cécile. p. 127, as Italian, sixteenth century; exh Cleveland Museum of Art, 1971: Caravaggio and his Followers. Ed. R. E. Spear. p. 108 [not exhibited]) Later variant (Vienna KH). (exh Vienna, Palais Harrach, 2001: Dipingere la musica; Musik in der Malerei des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts. S. Ferino-Pagden, ed. no. III.28, p. 239 [fine color reproduction]. Dates this as ca.1620/25, the Lisbon painting as 1610/12.)
[Guercino Pa] Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) (1591-1666). The Holy Family, with Saint Francesca Roana Holding the Christ Child in Her Arms. private collection. Angels play violin and lute (?). (R. Longhi. La Collezione Roberto Longhi. Florence 1971. pl. 86 [ok color reproduction])
[Guercino Pa] _______. The Vision of San Luigi Gonzaga. New York Metropolitan. Angels sing and play violin and lute. (E. Fahy and F. Watson. The Wrightsman Collection, V: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture. New York 1973. p. 119 [color reproduction], as ca.1650; Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 48 [Spring 1991] 39 [color reproduction]; Burlington 133 [1991] July supp. p. 9)
[Guercino Dr] _______. A Monk Receiving the Child from the Madonna (sheet of studies). private collection. drawing. Includes a sketch of an angel playing a lute. unimp. (Burlington 128 [1986] March supp. p. 4 [ok reproduction])
[Guercino Follower Pa] Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) (1591-1666), Follower. Rest on the Flight to Egypt. Budapest SM. Angels play violin and lute. (Cleveland Museum of Art Bulletin 57 [1970] p. 95)
[Hovic Pa] Hovic, Gaspar (doc.1596), attr. Virgin and Child in Glory with Saints. Bitonto, S. Franceso d'Assisi. Angels play lute and a lyre-like plucked-stringed instrument. (M. Stella Calò. La pittura del cinquecento e del primo seicento in terra di Bari. Bari 1969. pl. 149)
[Imparato Pa] Imparato, Girolamo (doc.1573-m.1621). The Virgin in Glory (1606). Vibo Valentia, Chiesa delle Clarisse. Angels at the left play lute and cornett, at the right, lira da gamba and perhaps another musical instrument. (Inventario degli oggetti d'arte d'Italia, II: Provincia di Calabria. Rome 1933. p. 17 (?) or 117)
[Manetti Pa] Manetti, Rutilio di Lorenzo (1571-1639). Mass of St. Cerbonius. Siena, Chiesa S. Maria in Provenzano. Angels play violin, cello/double bass, chitarrone and lute. (C. Brandi. Rutilio Manetti. Siena 1931. pl. XXII [uselessly small reproduction]; A. Moir. The Italian Followers of Caravaggio. Cambridge MA 1967. fig. 279 [uselessly small reproduction])
[Massari Pa] Massari, Lucio (1569-1633). The Return of the Prodigal Son. Bologna PN. Angels play harp, lute and cornett. (E. Negro and M. Pirondini. La scuola dei Carracci ... [vol. II]. Modena 1995. p. 244 [ok color reproduction]; E. Vetter. Der verlorene Sohn. Düsseldorf 1955. pl. 30 [poor reproduction], as ca.1610. Notes that the angels symbolize the joy in heaven for the return of the penitent Prodigal.)
[Massari Pa] _______. Saints Agostino and Monaca with the Virgin above (La Madonna di Reggio). Rimini, Chiesa dei Servi. Angels at the left play violin and panpipes, at the right, viola and lute (?). (C. F. Marcheselli. Pitture delle Chiese di Rimini, 1754. Ed. P. G. Pasini. Bologna 1972. fig. 63)
[Mazzuchelli Dr] Mazzuchelli, Pier Francesco (called Morazzone) (1571/73-1626). An Angel Playing a Lute. Darmstadt, HLM. drawing. unimp (vague). (Early Music 12 [1984] 213 [ok reproduction]; Musica Calendar 1987: 6-19 September [fine reproduction])
[Mazzuchelli Dr] _______. Angels. Los Angeles, Getty Museum. drawing. They play cello and lute. (J. Paul Getty Museum. European Drawings. Catalogue of the Collections. 1992. p. not recorded [ok reproduction])
[Molineri Pa] Molineri, Giovanni Antonio (ca.1577-ca.1645). Ecstasy of St. Nicola da Tolentino. Carignano, S. Maria delle Grazie. Angels play harp and lute. Putti sing and play flute. (exh Turin, 1963: Mostra del barocco piemontese. part II, pl. 16b, as ca.1626)
[Moncalvo Workshop Pa] Moncalvo (Guglielmo Caccia, called Il Moncalvo) (ca.1565-ca.1625), Workshop. St. Cecilia. Turin Sabauda. St. Cecilia has a positive organ. An angel tunes a lute. Putti sing and play violin (? -- botch) and woodwind (botch). There may be another woodwind on the table beside the organ. unimp. (N. Gabrielli. Galleria Sabauda. Maestri Italiani. Turin 1971. fig. 399, pl. 149)
[Ottini Pa] Ottini (Ottino), Pasquale (ca.1580-1630). Assumption of the Virgin. Padua, S. Maria in Vanzo. Several musical angels, including two playing lutes. (C. Donzelli and G. M. Pilo. I pittori del seicento veneto. Florence 1967. pl. 332 [poor reproduction])
[Ottini Pa] _______. Virgin in Glory, with Saints. Verona, S. Giorgio in Braida. With musical angels, including one playing a lute. (Burlington 116 [1974] 693 [poor reproduction])
[Pellegrini Pa] Pellegrini, Vincenzo (1575-1612). The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine. Greenville SC, Bob Jones University. Six musical angels, including one playing a lute. (The Bob Jones University Collection of Religious Paintings. Greenville SC 1962. vol. I, no. 59)
[G B Procaccini Pa] Procaccini, Giulio Cesare (1574-1625). Virgin and Child with Angels and SS Francis and Dominic. New York Metropolitan. Includes a young angel playing a lute. unimp. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 95 [March 1980] La chronique des arts no. 1334, p. 32 [small reproduction])
[Reggio Dr] Reggio, Raffaellino da (ca.1550-1578). God the Father and Angels on Clouds. Washington NGA. drawing. Angels play harp and lute. (National Gallery of Art. Recent Acquisitions 1974. p. 201 [minuscule reproduction])
[Reni Fr] Reni, Guido (1575-1642). St. Dominic in Glory. Bologna, S. Domenico. vault fresco. Several musical angels, including two playing lutes. (P. Venturino Alce. Il Coro di San Domenico in Bologna. Bologna 1969. p. 117 [small reproduction], as 1614-1615; Vis. Coll. 372.R295.38Do)
[Reni Dr] _______. Coronation of the Virgin. Edinburgh, NG of Scotland, D.702r. drawing. Four or five musical angels, including one playing a lute. unimp. (K. Andrews. "An early Guido Reni drawing." Burlington 103 [1961] 461-465, this reproduced p. 463)
[Reni Pa] _______. Assumption of the Virgin. London NG. Numerous musical angels, including one playing an arch-lute. (National Gallery Illustrations. Italian Schools. London 1937. no. 214, p. 305 [useless reproduction]; Apollo 91 [1970] 459 [poor reproduction]; Burlington 103 [1961] 464 [poor reproduction]; Burlington 112 [1970] 376 [poor reproduction]; Vis. Coll. 372.R295.31C)
[Reni Pa] _______. Assumption of the Virgin. Madrid Prado. Several musical angels, including one playing a lute. (A. E. Perez Sanchez. Pintura italiana del S. XVII in España. Madrid 1965. pl. 39 [poor reproduction]; Apollo 91 [1970] 459 [poor reproduction]; Burlington 103 [1969] 467 [wretched reproduction]; Vis. Coll. 372.R295.31As[a])
[Reni Fr] _______. The Virgin in Glory/Conception of the Virgin Immaculate by God the Father. Rome, Quirinal Palace, Annunciation Chapel. dome fresco. Many musical angels, including those playing lutes and arch lute. (Art Bulletin 75 [1993] 119; Burlington 113 [1971] 374 [useless reproduction])
[Reni Fr] _______. God in Glory. Rome, San Gregorio al Cielo, Oratorio di S. Silva. fresco. Numerous musical angels, including one playing a lute. (L. Bruhns. Die Kunst der Stadt Rom. Vienna 1951. fig. 358 [small reproduction]; V. Golzio. Seicento e settecento. 3/Turin 1968. [Storia dell'arte classica e italiana, 4] p. 713 [left half], as 1608; Le Chiese di Roma illustrata: S. Gregorio al Cielo. Rome n.d. p. 46 [fair reproduction], as 1608, in very poor condition ["assai guasto"] and partly repainted; TCI. Roma II. Milan 1943. [Attraverso l'Italia] p. 45; MGG IV, cols. 1195-1198; Vis. Coll. 372.R295.39G)
[Reni Dr] _______. Study for an Angel Playing a Lute. private collection. (exh Bremen, Kunsthalle, 1968: Unbekannte Handzeichnungen alter Meister, 15. - 18. Jahrhundert: Sammlung Freiherr Koenig-Fachsenfeld. no. 18 [fine reproduction]; Musica calendar 1981: 22 Feb.-7 March [fine reproduction])
[Reni Pa] _______. Assumption of the Virgin. private collection. Angels play several musical instruments, including two lutes. (Burlington 103 [1961] 437 [poor reproduction]; Burlington 111 [1969] 473 [poor reproduction])
[Reni Pa] _______. Assumption of the Virgin. private collection. Angels (and putti) sing and play several musical instruments, including a theorbo. Seems in poor condition. (I quadri delle collezione Lechi in Brescia. Florence 1968. no. 47)
[Reni Pa] _______. Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine. private collection. A young angel plays a little lute. On the floor in the left foreground a small lute lies across a small viol. (E. Negro and M. Pirondini. La scuola dei Carracci ... [vol. II]. Modena 1995. p. 28 [small color reproduction])
[Roncalli Dr] Roncalli, Cristofano (called Il Cavaliere delle Pomarance) (1552-1626). An Angel Playing a Lute. Florence Uffizi. (Vis. Coll. 372d.R664.36[a])
[Rovere Dr] Rovere, Giovanni Mauro della (called Il Fiammenghino) (ca.1575-1640). Musical Angels. Venice, Accademia. Angels sing and play violin, lute, woodwind (recorder?) and cornett. unimp. (exh Milan, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, [197-]: Il seicento lombardo III. no. 153)
[Sacchi] Sacchi, Andrea (1599-1661). Assumption of the Virgin. Chiuduno, S. Maria Assunta. There are several musical angels, including one playing a lute. (Inventario degli oggetti d'arte d'Italia, I: Provincia de Bergamo. Rome 1931. p. 231 [poor reproduction])
[Santafede Pa] Santafede, Francesco (op. late-16th - 17th century), attr. Annunciation to the Virgin. Paola, Chiesa Madre. Several musical angels, including one playing a lute. very unimp. (Inventario degli oggetti d'arte d'Italia, II: Provincia de Calabria. Rome 1933. p. 211 [poor reproduction])
[Schidone Dr] Schidone, Bartolommeo (ca.1570-1615). Virgin and Child with the Infant St. John. private collection. Angels play viola da braccio/violin (right) and lute (left). (Vis. Coll. 372.Sch35.34[d])
[Schidone Pa] _______. The Virgin and Child with Angels. St. Petersburg, Hermitage. Two angels play lutes of unequal size. (1958 catalog, no. 82) Engraving in the Recueil Crozat, as Fra Bartolommeo. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 72 [1968] 88 [minuscule reproduction])
[Spada Pa] Spada, Lionello (1576-1622). Christ and the Virgin in Glory, Adored by St. Francis. Modena, Galleria Estense. Angels play viola and lute. Putti hold music and a woodwind instrument. (A. Moir. The Italian Followers of Caravaggio. Cambridge MA 1967. fig. 308; E. Negro and M. Pirondini. La scuola dei Carracci ... [vol. I]. Modena 1994. p. 272; R. Pallucchini. I dipinti della galleria Estense di Modena. Rome 1945. no. 290, as before 1614?)
[Spada Pa] _______. Musical Angels. Naples PN di Capodimonte. They play chitarrone and guitar. (E. Negro and M. Pirondini. La scuola dei Carracci ... [vol. I]. Modena 1994. p. 270 [minuscule reproduction])
[Spineda Pa] Spineda, Ascanio (1588-p.[?]1648). Assumption of the Virgin. Treviso, MC. Angels play violin, harp, lute and cornett. unimp. (C. Donzelli and G. M. Pilo. I pittori del seicento veneto. Florence 1967. pl. 410)
[Tanzio Fr] Tanzio, Antonio d'Enrico (Tanzio da Varallo) (ca.1575-1635). Ascension of Christ [?]. Novara, San Gaudenzio, Cappella dell'Angelo Custode (Cappella Nazzari). fresco. Angels sing and play positive organ and cello/double bass (left), violin and lute (right). (exh Turin 1960: Tanzio da Varallo. Pll. 83, 86, 87, as 1627)
[Tanzio Pa] _______. Madonna of the Fire/Virgin and Child in Glory with Saints. Pescocostanza, Collegiata. Angels sing (?) and play small double bass and lute. (A. Moir. The Italian Followers of Caravaggio. Cambridge MA 1967. vol. II, fig. 350; exh Turin 1960: Tanzio da Varallo. Pl. 2)
[Tiarini Dr] Tiarini, Alessandro (1577-1668). The Annunciation. private collection. Includes an angel playing a lute. (Burlington 114 [1972] 728. Notes exh Edinburgh, The Merchant's Hall, 1972: Italian Seventeenth-Century Drawings from British Private Collections, and disagrees that the drawing is based on Ludovico Carracci's altarpiece in Bologna Cathedral.)
[Turchi Pa] Turchi, Alessandro (1578-1649). Coronation of the Virgin with SS Ubaldo and Carlo Borromeo. Camerino, S. Venanzio. Angels play viola da braccio/violin, harp and lute (and perhaps more). (A. Moir. The Italian Followers of Caravaggio. Cambridge MA 1967. fig. 148 [useless reproduction]; Vis. Coll. 372.T844.38U)
[Turchi Pa] _______. Virgin and Child with SS Charles Borromeo and Francis. Rome, S. Salvatore in Lauro. Includes an angel playing a lute. (A. Moir. The Italian Followers of Caravaggio. Cambridge MA 1967. fig. 135 [useless reproduction])
[Vaccaro Pa] Vaccaro, Andrea (1598?-1670), attr. St. Cecilia. Naples MN Caopdimonte. St. Cecilia plays a chamber organ and angels pay violin and chitarrone (and one more?). (A. Moir. The Italian Followers of Caravaggio. Cambridge MA 1967. fig. 210 [poor reproduction]; exh Vienna, Palais Harrach, 2001: Dipingere la musica; Musik in der Malerei des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts. S. Ferino-Pagden, ed. no. III.30, p. 241 [ok color reproduction], as attr. Carlo Sellitto; Burlington 114 [1972] 806. Review of exh Bucharest, Naples, 1972: Il secolo d'oro della pittura napoletana. Reviewer does not think much of the attribution to Giovan Matteo Arciero; Vis. Coll. 372.C174.38Ce, as attr. Giovanni Battista Caraccioli; Vis. Coll. 372.V131.38C)
[F Vanni Dr] Vanni, Francesco (1563-1610). Adoration of the Shepherds. Florence Uffizi. drawing. Angels sing and play positive organ, hurdy-gurdy, bass viol and two lutes. Two shepherds have bagpipes. (Vis. Coll. 372d.V3393.22Ad)
[F Vanni Dr] _______. Sheet of Studies for a Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine of Siena. Haarlem, Tylers Stichting. drawing. A female figure (angel?) plays a lute. (Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst 30 [1979] 86)
[F Vanni Pa] _______. Adoration of the Shepherds. Salzburg, Dommuseum. Angels play positive organ, lute and flute. A shepherd holds a bagpipe. (Die Weltkunst 53 [1983] 1902 [ok color reproduction], as 1600)
[Varotari Pa] Varotari, Alessandro (Il Padovanino) (1588-1648). Virgin and Child with the Adult St. John. Pontevigodarzere (Padua), S. Giovanni Battista. Includes an angel in the foreground playing a lute. (Inventario degli oggetti d'arte d'Italia, VII: Provincia di Padova. Rome 1936. p. 180)
[Viani Pa] Viani, Antonio Maria (called Vianino) (prob.1555/60-1629). The Trinity with Two Saints. Mantua, Palazzo Ducale. Angels sing (?) and play viola and two lutes. (L. Ozzola. La Galleria del Palazzo Ducale di Mantua. Mantua 1946. fig. 37)
[Vignali Pa] Vignali, Jacopo (1592-1664). St. Cecilia. Dublin NGI. St. Cecilia sings at the harpsichord. Angels sing and play lute (double-headed). (B. Boydell. Music and Paintings in the National Gallery of Ireland. Dublin 1985. pl. 1 after p. 4 [ok color reproduction], p. 54)
Comedians: See also Allegory, Months/Zodiac (February); Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor, Street Scenes.
[feather picture Anon.] Anon, late-16th - early 17th century? "Trastulo" and "Ricolina." Montreal, McGill University Library. picture executed in birds' feathers. Trastulo plays a colascione. (A. Nicoll. The World of Harlequin ... Cambridge 1963. p. 81)
Musicans (amateur and professional): See also Miscellaneous Figures, Comedians.
[BI Florence 1582] Anon. Title-page vignette of Lorenzo de Medici, Selve d'amore. Florence, Giorgio Marescotti, 1582. woodcut. The single figure plays a lute. A fiddle hangs upside down from a tree. (Winternitz Musical Instruments p. 96; MGG VIII, col. 949) The same as the vignette of Scelta di madrigali. Florence, Giorgio Marescotti, 1582. (Fraenkel no. 25)
[BI Rome 1591] Anon. Title page of Simone Verovio, Canzonette. Rome, Verovio, 1591. engraving. Women sing (?) and play a keyboard instrument and a lute. A man plays a lute and a boy plays a flute. (H. Engel. Musik und Gesellschaft ... Berlin-Halensee 1960. opp. (?) p. 272)
[BI Rome 1622] Tempesta, Antonio (1555-1630), attr. Musicians Encouraging Nightingales to Sing, from G. P. Olina, Uccelliera. Rome, Adrea Fei, 1622. Includes a lute player. (IB vol. 36, no. 1004, p. 248 [faint impression]; T. M. MacRobert. Fine Illustrations in Western European Printed Books. London 1969. fig. 39; exh Rome 2000-01: Colori della musica ... p. 63 [not exhibited], after Bartsch; MGG IX, cols. 1093-94 [fair reproduction]; Musica calendar 1983: 17-30 April [fine reproduction])
[BI Venice 1600] Anon. Title page of Fabritio Caroso da Sermoneta, Nobiltà di Dame. Venice, Presso il Muschio, 1600. engraving. Musicians in arcades play viola da braccio, cello/viol, harp and lute. (Early Music 14 [1986] 174 [ok reproduction]; MGG I, Taf. XLIV, with imprint date MDCV [1605])
[BI Venice 1607] Anon. Title page of Girolamo Parabosco, I di porti. Venice 1607. woodcut. Figures play lute (the lute partly visible, a crowned figure), plucked stringed instrument and recorder. (Early Music 10 [1982] 29)0
[Dr London V & A] Bolognese, [early?] 17th century. Musicians. London V & A. drawing. A woman plays a lute (it looks as though she is fingering a harmonic) and a man holds a recorder (pausing). A boy holds up a (music?) book. There is an unplayed violin/viola. (Vis. Coll. 372d.It117.90[m])
[Dr Paris EBA] Italian, [early?] 17th century. Figures in a Gondola. Paris, École des Beaux-Arts. drawing. They sing and play bass viol, lute and cornett. (Vis. Coll. 372d.It117.90[b])
[Ansaldo Fr] Ansaldo, (Giovanni) Andrea (1584-1638). Trompe l'oeil Figures aound a Balcony. Genoa, Villa Negrone, via Pieve di Teco, 16, salone. fresco. One of them plays a lute. (Le ville Genovesi. Genoa 1967. p. 277)
[Caravaggio Pa] Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da (1573-1610). Cupid and Three Musicians. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. One holds a curved horn. Another tunes a lute. There is a small violin in the foreground. (R. Hinks. Michelangelo Merisi da Cravaggio ... London 1953. cat.no. 6, pl. 7; Lesure pl. 46 [color reproduction]; V. Scherliess. Musikalische Noten auf Kunstwerken der italienischen Renaissance ... Hamburg 1972. Abb. 29; exh Florence, Palazzo Pitti, 1991/92, Rome, Palazzo Ruspoli, 1992: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio come nascono i capolavori. Ed. M. Gregori. no. 5, p. 140 [x-ray], p. 141 [color reproduction]; exh New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990: A Caravaggio Rediscovered: The Lute Player. Ed. K. Christiansen. no. 3, p. 20 [fine color reproduction], 21 [splendid color detail]; exh New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985: The Age of Caravaggio. no. 69, p. 230 [fine color reproduction], p. 231 [x-ray], p. 233 [with oxidized varnish and repainting removed]; exh Cleveland Museum of Art, 1971: Caravaggio and his Followers. Ed. R. E. Spear. no. 15; exh Vienna, Palais Harrach, 2001: Dipingere la musica; Musik in der Malerei des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts. S. Ferino-Pagden, ed. p. 27 [small reproduction, not exhibited], as an allegory of Music; exh Rome 2000-01: Colori della musica ... p. 19 [small reproduction, not exhibited], as La Musica; Burlington 94 [1952] 5; A. W. G. Posèq. "Bacchic themes in Caravaggio's juvenile works." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 115 [1990] 113-121, this reproduced p. 117)
[G Carlone Fr] Carlone, Giovanni (1590-1630). Trompe l'oeil Frieze of Musicians. Sampierdarena, Palazzo Spinola. fresco. They play violin, guitar and lute (and perhaps other instruments). (M. Marangoni. I Carloni. Florence 1925. fig. 27)
[Carracci Dr] The Carracci (16th-17th cent.), attr. Study of a Youth Playing a Lute. Besançon (Doubs), Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie. drawing. unimp. (Vis. Coll. 372d.C2332.90[d])
[Carracci School Dr] The Carracci (16th-17th cent.), School. Study of a Man Playing a Lute. Vienna Albertina. drawing. unimp. (Vis. Coll. 372d.C23321)
[Agostino Carracci Dr] Carracci, Agostino (1557-1602). Two Youths Making Music. Rennes MBA. drawing. One plays a lute, the other may sing. unimp. (Vis. Coll. 372d.C231.22F)
[Annibale Carracci Dr] Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609). Study of a Man Playing a Lute. Florence Uffizi no. 763. drawing. unimp. (Vis. Coll. 372d.C232.90[bb])
[Annibale Carracci Dr] _______. Sheet of Studies: A Lute Player and other Studies. Ottawa NGC, Print Room. drawing. (I doubt that it is Annibale Carracci. The lute and pose are from earlier in the 16th century.) (J. S. Boggs. The National Gallery of Canada. London 1971. no. 162; Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Canada. [Toronto? 1968?] no. 8; Connoisseur 171 [1969] 140 [ok reproduction])
[Domenichino Dr] Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri) (1581-1641). Two Musicians. Paris Louvre CdD. drawing. They play guitar and lute. Note the Landscape by Annibale Carracci (Berlin SMPK) which seems related to this. (See Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor, Landscapes, above.) (Vis. Coll. 372.D710.90[a])
[Domenichino Dr] _______. Study of a Lute Player. Paris Louvre CdD. drawing. A dwarfish street musician plays a chittarone (? -- three roses, head not visible). unimp. (R. E. Spear. Domenichino. New Haven 1982. vol. II, pl. 392, as from the 1630's?)
[O Gentileschi Fr] Gentileschi, Orazio (1563-1639). The Concert. Rome, Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi, Casino delle Muse. ceiling fresco. Includes two lute players. (V. Golzio. Palazzi romani ... Bologna 1971. figs. 209 [useless reproduction], 211 [good detail of double bass, harp, and one lute]; V. Golzio. Seicento e settecento. Turin 1968. [Storia dell'arte classica e italiana, 4] 546 [poor detail])
[Giovanni di San Giovanni Circle Dr] Giovanni di San Giovanni (1592-1636), Circle of. A Woman Holding a Lute. Edinburgh NGS. drawing. unimp. (K. Andrews. The National Gallery of Scotland. Catalogue of Italian Drawings. London 1968. p. 73, fig. 405)
[Guercino Dr] Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) (1591-1666). The Concert. Cambridge MA Fogg AM. drawing. Figures play violin and lute and hold a recorder. There is a cornett (?) on the table. The instruments are poorly drawn. unimp. (Vis. Coll. 372d.G937.90[F])
[Guercino-Bartolozzi Pr] Francesco Bartolozzi (1729-1815) after Guercino. Lute Player and Singer. engraving. (Early Music 3 [1975] 139)
[Jacopo da Empoli Dr] Jacopo da Empoli (1551-1640). Lute Player. Amsterdam RPK. drawing. (J. C. J. Frerichs. Italiaanse Tekeningen [RPK]. Amsterdam 1973. vol. I, no. 23, cat. no 54; exh Amsterdam RPK 1996: Italian Drawings from the Rijksprentenkabinet Amsterdam. Ed. B. W. Meijer. no. 14, p. 104 [minuscule reproduction])
[Lana Pa] Lana, Ludovico (1597-1646), attr. Three Men. private collection. One plays a chitarrone or tiorba, another, a flute. (Burlington 99 [1957] 271. Notes exh Agnew's, London, 1957: Pictures from Hampshire Houses; exh Rome 2000-01: Colori della musica ... p. 68 [not exhibited]; Early Music 4 [1976] 411. Identifies the lute player as Geronimo Valeriani, lutenist to the Duke of Modena; Imago musicae 4 [1987] 248, notes sale Sotheby's London, 25.XI.1970. Identifies the lute as a chittarone; Vis. Coll. 372.C176.90[f], as by Caravaggio)
[Manetti Pa] Manetti, Rutilio di Lorenzo (1571-1639). Musical Ensemble. Siena, Palazzo Chigi Saracini. Women play guitar and lute. Men play cello (?), violin and chitarrone. (C. Brandi. Rutilio Manetti. Siena 1931. pl. XXXIII, XXXIV [uninformative detail]; V. Golzio. Seicento e settecento. Turin 1968. [Storia dell'arte classica e italiana, 4] p. 1355 [fair reproduction]; exh Rome 2000-01: Colori della musica ... no. 32, p. 181 [ok color reprocution])
[Manfredi Pa] Manfredi, Bartolomeo (1580-1620). Musicians. Florence Uffizi (destroyed by a bomb in 1993). Men sing and play violin, lute and cornett. (B. Berenson. Caravaggio ... London 1953. pl. 42, as after Caravaggio; Harrison and Rimmer no. 113 [dark reproduction]; A. Moir. The Italian Followers of Caravaggio. Cambridge MA 1967. fig. 103; exh Rome, 2000-01, Palazzo Barberini: Colori della musica ... no. 28, p. 171 [fair color reproduction of a version reconstituted from the remaining fragments], p. 173 [color detail including the restored violin and lute] Notes A. Petrioli Tofani, introduction to "I restauri dell attentato ...," Gli Uffizi. Studi e Ricerche 14 [1995] 7-12.; exh Cremona, 1987: Dopo Caravaggio ... no. 6, p. 69 [fair color reproduction], p. 92 [x-ray, including the cornett and the lute]; exh Florence, Palazzo Pitti, 1970: Caravaggio e caravaggeschi nelle Gallerie di Firenze. Ed. E. Borea. pll. 9, 11 [copy], 11a [engraving]; Vis. Coll. 372.M3123.90[b]) Engraved (1784) by Giovanni Battista Cecchi as Compagnia di Borgognoni che Studian Musica. (MgB IV/3, p. 57)
[Manfredi Pa] _______. Three Men Making Music. private collection. Two sing and one (also singing?) plays a lute. (exh Rome 2000-01: Colori della musica ... p. 78 [not exhibited]. Notes relation to paintings in the Uffizi and the Los Angeles County Museum; exh Vienna, Palais Harrach, 2001: Dipingere la musica ... p. 37 [fair reproduction, not exhibited])
[M Rosselli Dr] Rosselli, Matteo (1578-1651). Study of a Young Man Playing a Lute. Florence Uffizi. drawing. (Vis. Coll. 372d.R7364.51[b])
[Spada Pa] Spada, Lionello (1576-1622), attr. Preparation for a Concert. Paris Louvre. Boys sing and hold a violin (finger pointing to mouth). Men hold a violin and tune a chitarrone. There is a guitar on the table. (E. Negro and M. Pirondini. La scuola dei Carracci ... [vol. I]. Modena 1994. p. 287 [ok color reproduction]; exh Cleveland 1971: Caravaggio and his Followers. Ed. R. E. Spear. no. 63 [poor reproduction], as ca.1615; Musique-Images-Instruments 2 [1996] 251) Engraved by Etienne Picart (1631?-1721) (as Domenichino). (D. Boyden. The History of Violin Playing from its Origins to 1761 ... London 1965. pl. 20; Haas Barock p. 85; Kinsky p. 175)
[Spada Pa] _______. Musicians. Rome, Galleria Borghese. There is perhaps a boy singer, and men with a violin (tuning), a chitarrone (tuning), a recorder (held) and a trombone (putting on the slide). (E. Negro and M. Pirondini. La scuola dei Carracci ... [vol. I]. Modena 1994. p. 284 [color reproduction]; exh Rome 2000-01: Colori della musica ... no. 27, p. 169 [fine color reproduction], as ca.1615-20; 1955 catalog: I Dipinti. vol. I, pl. 122; Musique-Images-Instruments2 [1966] 13 [poor reproduction]; Vis. Coll. 372.Sp1.90[a])
[Strozzi Pa] Strozzi, Bernardo (1581-1644). Two Musicians. private collection. They play a violin and tune a lute. There is an unplayed pommer. (Burlington 97 [1955] 62 [poor, slightly cropped reproducton]. Notes versions in Russia, USA [ex Legnago], Amsterdam and Hampton Court; Musica calendar 1964: 4-17 October [ok reproduction]; Vis. Coll. 372.St87.90[e]) Copy (Hampton Court Palace). (Burlington 121 [1979] 663) Copy (private collection, Venice). (Vis. Coll. 172.St87.90[h]) Copy (private collection -- ex New York art market, 1953) (exh Binghamton NY, University AG, 1967: Bernardo Strozzi. no. 23) Copy (private collection [Stanley Wade collection]) (exh Binghamton NY, University AG, 1967: Bernardo Strozzi. p. 100 [tiny reproduction, not exhibited]) Copy, Rome art market (2000). (exh Rome 2000-01: Colori della musica ... cat. 33, p. 183 [ok color reproduction], notes sale, Christie's, Rome, 4.XII.2000, no. 705)
[Tempesta Pr] Tempesta, Antonio (1555-1630). Five Musicians, from a series of Grotesque Figures. engraving. Caricature. Includes a woman playing a lute. (IB vol. 37, no. 1374, p. 209)
Putti: [BI Venice 1592] Anon. Passe-partout title-page border of the Venetian printer Angelo Gardano. engraving. Includes putti playing viola da braccio and lute. (Fraenkel no. 23, from Il trionfo di Dori. Venice 1592)
[BI Venice 1615] Anon. Passe-partout title-page border of the Venetian printer Giacomo Vincenti. Putti in the upper corners sing and play a lute (left) and sing and play a violin (right). (Early Music 18 [1990] 540 [small reproduction], for Antonio Burlini, Messa, Salme e Motetti [1615])
[Pa Vercelli S Andrea] Italian, late-16th century. The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine. Vercelli, Basilica di S. Andrea. A little putto crouches below, playing a lute. It is an unusual iconography. Christ is a grown man (youth) at the left. The Virgin in the center as a priest marries him to St. Catherine. (A. M. Brizio. Catalogo delle cose d'arte e di antichità d'Italia: Vercelli. Rome 1935. p. 29)
[L Bassano Fr] Bassano, Leandro (1557-1622). Doge Ziani meets Pope Alexander III. Venice, Palazzo Ducale. fresco. In the border putti play viole da gamba and lutes. (Vis. Coll. 372.B298.4Alz-c)
[Bissoni Pa] Bissoni, Giovanni Battista (1576-1634). Angel Concert. Padua, Chiesa dei Servi. Putti sing and play a number of instruments, including a lute. unimp. (Inventario degli oggetti d'arte d'Italia, VII: Provincia di Padova. Rome 1936. p. 153)
[G B Crespi Pa] Crespi, Giovanni Battista (Il Cerano) (1557-1633). Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints ("Madonna del Rosario"). Milan Brera. A child angel tunes a lute. (G. Mazzariol and T. Pignatti. Storia dell'arte italiana, III. Milan 1961. p. 299; Vis. Coll. 372.C8635.34[a])
[Domenichino Pa] Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri) (1581-1641). St. Cecilia. Rome, Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi. Includes putti holding a violin and a lute. (R. E. Spear. Domenichino. New Haven 1982. cat. no. 91, vol. 2, pl. 309, as ca.1623-30) Copy: Chrysler Coll. (Mirimonde Sainte Cécile. pl. 103; Vis. Coll. 372.D710.90[a])
[Guerinoni Pa] Guerinoni, Giovanni Battista (doc.1576-78). Virgin and Child Enthroned with Female Saints (1576). Averara, Chiesa S. Giacomo. A putto below the throne plays a lute. (Inventario degli oggetti d'arte d'Italia, I: Provincia di Bergamo. Rome 1931. p. 165)
[Moncalvo Pa] Moncalvo (Guglielmo Caccia, called Il Moncalvo) (ca.1565-ca.1625). S. Bernardo da Chiaravalle. Turin Sabauda. Putti sing and play viola da braccio, harp (strung wrong), lute (?), flute and one more musical instrument. (exh Turin, Palazzo Carignano, 1939: Gotica e Rinascimento in Piemonte. Ed. V. Viale. pl. 166 [poor reproduction]; Arte Lombarda 8/2 [1963] 200 [poor reproduction])
[Pomis Pa] Pomis, Pietro de (1569-1633). The Founding of the Paradieskloster by Archduchess Maria. Graz, Antoniuskirche. Includes a putto playing a lute. unimp. (Alte und moderne Kunst 12/H.90 [1967] 61, as ca.1602)
[Roccatagliata Sc] Roccatagliata, Nicolò (op.ca.1593-1636). Putto Playing a Lute. private collection. ormolu figure. (Connoisseur 147 [1961] June p. 7 [tiny reproduction])
[Semplice da Verona Pa] Semplice da Verona, Fra (doc.1617-m.1654). The Infant Jesus and Musical Angels/Putti. Venice, Cappuccini, SS. Redentore. A painting as a frame around a pre-existing Madonna. Putti sing and play five musical instruments, including a lute. Angels sing and play positive organ, harp and lute. (L. Manzatto. Fra Semplice da Verona, pittore del seicento. Verona [pref. 1972]. fig. 18, 18.2 [detail with lute], as ca.1627/30)
[T Vecellio Pa] Vecellio, Tiziano II (called il Tizianello) (ca.1570-ca.1650). St. Anthony Abbot between SS Jerome and Catherine, with the Virgin and Child above. Alano (Belluno), Parrocchiale. Putti sing and play bass viol and lute (left), large violin, harp and woodwind (right). unimp. (C. Donzelli and G. M. Pilo. I pittori del seicento veneto. Florence 1967. pl. 437 [small reproduction]; exh Belluno, "Auditorium," 1951: Mostra dei Vecellio. no. 34, p. 61 [small reproduction])
Other: [Spada Pa] Spada, Lionello (1576-1622). Musical Figures in Medallions. Reggio Emilia, Chiesa della Ghiara. cupola fresco. Angels and/or draped female figures play several musical instruments, including a lute. (A. Ghidiglia Quintavalle. Arte in Emilia terza: Gli affreschi del Duomo di Modena e reperti d'arte dal medioevo al barocco. Modena 1967. fig. 81, as finished in 1615)
[BI Florence 1625] Accolti, Pietro (doc.1578-1642) Five Views of the Lute, from Lo inganno de gl'occhi. Florence, Pietro Cecconcelli, 1625. engraving. (M. Rosci. Baschenis, Bettera & Co. Milan 1971. p. 35 [small reproduction])
[BI Venice 1596] Sirigatti, Lorenzo (doc.1596). The Perspective of the Lute, from his Prattica di prospettiva. Venice, Per Girolamo Franceschi, 1596. engraving. (M. Rosci. Baschenis, Bettera & Co. Milan 1971. p. 35 [small reproduction])
[Brambilla Pr] Brambilla, Giovanni Ambrogio (fl. 1579-1590) for Michele Carrara, Regola ferma e vera per intavolatura di liuto. pub. Rome, E. Roberti, 1585. engraved poster. Includes a lute. (Bibliothèque nationale [Paris]. Tresors des bibliothèques d'Italie Ive - XVIe siècles. Paris 1950. pl. 18 [small reproduction])