Artist and musicians
Subtitle: portrait studies from the Rococo to the Revolution
By: Daniel Heartz ; with contributing studies by Paul Corneilson and John A. Rice ; edited by Beverly Wilcox
Contributors: Corneilson, Paul E. (Paul Edward), author; Rice, John A., author; Wilcox, Beverly, editor
Publisher: Steglein Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
ISBN-13: 9780981985077
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: European Art; European Portrait painting; Artists and theater; History; Musicians in art; Art and music
Description: Daniel Heartz's all-new, richly documented case studies bridge generations, nationalities, genders, musical styles, and artistic schools. The soprano castrato Farinelli and the Venetian Rococo painter Jacopo Amigoni formed a friendship that lasted for many years. A generation later, in Paris, the pastellist Maurice-Quentin de La Tour expressed his love for the greatest French soprano of her age, Marie Fel, in an intimate portrait. The other studies provide glimpses into the lives of the artists Antoine Watteau, Rosalba Carriera, Thomas Gainsborough, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Antoine Vestier, and François-André Vincent, the opera singers Faustina Bordoni and Rosalie Duplant; composers Johann Adolf Hasse, Johann Christian Bach, Antonio Sacchini, and Francois-Joseph Gossec, the gamba virtuoso Karl Abel, the music historian Charles Burney, and the Riccoboni troupe of comédiens italiennes. Besides Heartz's several pairings of artists and musicians, the collection contains ground-breaking studies by John A. Rice on the royal painter Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun and the opera composer Giovanni Paisiello, and by Paul Corneilson on Thomas Gainsborough's little-known portrait of the Mannheim soprano Franziska Danzi-Lebrun.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.