Picturing Music in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp: Marten de Vos’s Motet Prints
| Dates: | 19 April 2016 |
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| Times: | 06:00 - 07:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | John Rylands Research Institute |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Alumni, Current University students |
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| Speaker: | Dr Margit Thofner |
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In 1584 the painter Marten de Vos, the engraver Johan Sadeler and the composer Cornelis Verdonck worked together to produce a motet print. This was the first ever engraved representation of mensural musical notation, set within a beautifully designed image of the Virgin and Child enthroned. This talk explores the motivations behind this collaboration, the practicalities that it involved and, crucially, how this type of print might help us to understand the relationship between music and art in early modern Antwerp.
Speaker
Dr Margit Thofner
Role: Research Associate
Organisation: Sainsbury Research Institute, University of East Anglia
Biography: https://www.uea.ac.uk/art-history/people/profile/m-thofner#overviewTab
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John Casken Lecture Theatre
Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama
Manchester
