The private studioli of Italian rulers are among the most revealing interior spaces of the Renaissance. In them; ideals of sober recreation met with leisured reality in the construction of a private princely identity performed before the eyes of a select public. The decorative schemes installed in such rooms were carefully designed to prompt; facilitate and validate the performances through which that identity was constituted. Echoing Helicon reconstructs; through the (re)interpretation of painted and intarsia decoration; the role played by music; musicians and musical symbolism in those performances. Drawing examples from the Este dynasty - despotic rulers of Ferrara throughout the Renaissance who employed such musicians as Pietrobono; Tromboncino and Willaert; and such artists as Tura; Mantegna and Titian - author Tim Shephard reaches new conclusions about the integration of musical and visual arts within the courtly environment of renaissance Italy; and about the cultural work required of music and of images by those who paid for them.Relying on Renaissance-era source material from a wide range of disciplines as well as new approaches derived from critical and cultural theory; Shephard provides a fresh look at the music of this ninety-year period of the Italian Renaissance. While much has been written about the studiolo by historians of art and architecture; it has only recently become a growing area of interest among musicologists. As the first English language monograph devoted to the music of the studiolo; Echoing Helicon is a significant contribution to this developing area of research and essential reading for both musicologists and art historians specializing in the Italian Renaissance.
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