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Music and its images as a source of a creative myth
Get PDFMusic was commonly regarded as one of the most powerful arts. In line with a very long tradition reaching back to the Pythagoreans and to Plato and Aristotle, it was its blend of mathematical structure and unusual power of ''expression of affect'' that was particularly highly regarded. Although music was initially considered as belonging to the circle of imitational arts, it gradually obtained the incomparable status of an absolute art. In particular, music played an exceptional role in the early Romantic theories of art, when it was perceived as an epitome of artistic creation and the highest possible extension of human cognition through pure activity of the imagination. This article attempts to describe chosen aspects of the myth of music as a fulfilment of man's imaginary strivings by drawing on examples of Novalis (poetry and music as utopian arts of an idealiter construction) and of Robert Browning (music as a source of poetical imagination activated as a faculty of historical understanding)
"Painting upon the life": Colour knowledge and colour practice in English art writing and cosmetic treatises of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
No full textThe English verb >to paint< means both, painting with (oil) colors on panel and painting with cosmetics on the human face. Accordingly, English treatises on painting have discussed cosmetics since the late 16th century, like Richard Haydocke in his famous translation of Giovanni Paolo Lomazzos treatise on painting. Likewise, treatises on cosmetics analogized painting panels and painting faces. The paper analyzes how English cosmetic treatises of the 17th century dealt with color. Alongside practical color recipes and treatises on painting and cosmetic, it discusses if these writings talked about colors in terms of artisan production or aesthetic theory. However, the paper focuses on the question of the materials employed, i. e. the pigments described, their local or imported origin and the traditional or industrial nature of their production
Schöllenbach, ehem. Ev. Pfarrkirche - Schöllenbacher Altar, 1515 - Heute Schloss Erbach, Hubertuskapelle
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