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Cassation is a minor musical genre related to the serenade and divertimento. In the mid- to late 18th century, cassations commonly comprised loosely assembled sets of short movements intended for outdoor performance by orchestral or chamber ensembles. The genre was popular in southern German-speaking lands.
Portrait of Mozart by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, c. 1763. The Cassation in G major, K. 63 is a cassation for orchestra by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composed around 1769 for the celebration of finalists from the University of Salzburg (hence the common title "Finalmusik").
Art song – Musical setting of a poem or text usually written for one voice with piano accompaniment. Lied – German art song. Mélodie – French art song. Song cycle – Group of songs designed to be performed in a sequence as a single entity. Aubade – Song or instrumental composition concerning morning love or lovers separating at dawn.
Venus de Milo, at the Louvre. Art history is, briefly, the history of art—or the study of a specific type of objects created in the past. [1]Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today, art history examines broader aspects of visual culture, including the various visual and conceptual outcomes ...
The Four Philosophers (c. 1615.Oil on panel; 167 x 143 cm, Pitti Palace, Florence).In his friendship portrait of himself, his brother Philip Rubens, Justus Lipsius and Jan van den Wouwer (left to right), the painter Rubens's self-portrait on the left is an example of a figural repoussoir that is further accentuated by the flowing red curtain.
By definition, the arts themselves are open to being continually redefined. The practice of modern art, for example, is a testament to the shifting boundaries, improvisation and experimentation, reflexive nature, and self-criticism or questioning that art and its conditions of production, reception, and possibility can undergo.
View history; Tools. Tools. ... Types of art techniques There is no exact definition of what constitutes art. Artists have explored many styles and have used many ...
The influence of Insular art affected all subsequent European medieval art, especially in the decorative elements of Romanesque and Gothic manuscripts. [7] Surviving examples of Insular art are mainly illuminated manuscripts, metalwork and carvings in stone, especially stone crosses. Surfaces are highly decorated with intricate patterning, with ...