Allegory of the Praise of Music, Adriaen Collaert, 1587 - 1592 Canvas Print
Allegory on the praise of music. Title page for the series entitled: Encomium Mucies. In the middle an open book with the musical notation of the six-part motet: Nata, et grata polo, et vocum discordia concors Musica, scitque homines flectere, scitque Deos. Flectere scitque feras: at quisquis nescius illa flectier, is nec homo, nec fera, sed lapis est (The music was born in heaven and pleases God with her polyphony that sounds in harmony. She can touch both mortals and gods, and she can even touch wild animals. The one who is not stirred by music is not a human or an animal, but a stone). The music book is held by three female figures: Harmonia, Musica and Mensura. Musica (centre) wears a laurel wreath on the head. Harmonia (left) has a winged heart, with ears, in the right hand. Mensura has a T-shaped instrument with bells in the left hand (the precursor of the metronome?). The three personifications are surrounded by musical instruments and musical books that together form an ornamental edge around the music book. They are both contemporary instruments, reconstructions of old instruments, as well as their own inventions. The print is part of an album.
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