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Musician angels. Study of the narrative evangelic iconographic types
2012
El presente artículo pretende ofrecer una nueva vía de análisis de las imágenes musicales a través del estudio de los tipos iconográficos y las fuentes literarias e icónicas que los configuran. En este caso se ha optado por realizar un estudio del tipo del ángel músico en la narración evangélica y las razones de su inclusión en los diferentes tipos narrativos del arte visual cristiano. The aim of this article is to offer a new way to analyse musical images trough the study of iconographic types and their literary and iconic sources. More precisely, this paper focuses on the apparition of the musician angel in the narrative evangelic context and the reasons for its inclusion in the various n…
Forgiare la musica. Da Tubal-Kain ai mastri ferrai siciliani
2021
The idea of the “blacksmith musician” was widely spread in the ancient world: from the biblical myth of the blacksmith Tubal-Kain, half-brother of Jubal, inventor of musical instruments (lyre, psaltery, flute), to the legend handed down in Helleno-Latin literature that attributed to Pythagoras the discovery of musical intervals as he walked past a blacksmith’s forge. In the christianized Europe of the medieval-Renaissance period, the link between music and metallurgy, associated with the biblical blacksmith and the Greek philosopher, undergoes significant reworkings, both in the iconographic tradition and music literature. The ethnological investigation also offers numerous examples of musi…