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  2. The Musicians (Caravaggio) - Wikipedia

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    The Musicians or Concert of Youths (c. 1595) is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610). [1] The work was commissioned by Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte, who had an avid interest in music. [2] It is one of Caravaggio’s more complex paintings, with four figures that were likely painted from ...

  3. Angel musicians (National Gallery) - Wikipedia

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    Both paintings feature an angel playing music, in keeping with the tradition of medieval representations of angel musicians. [1] The figure of the angel musician dates back to the 13th century. It has evolved over the centuries to proclaim the glory of an illustrious figure from the Bible, such as the Virgin Mary, Mother of God.

  4. Music of the Trecento - Wikipedia

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    The music of the troubadors, who brought their lyrical, secular song into northern Italy in the early 13th century after they fled their home regions—principally Provence—during the Albigensian Crusade, was a strong influence, and perhaps a decisive one; many of the Trecento musical forms are closely related to those of the troubadours of ...

  5. Portrait of a Musician - Wikipedia

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    Detail of the face. This painting was executed in oils and perhaps tempera [n 2] on a small, 44.7 cm × 32 cm (17.6 in × 12.6 in) walnut wood panel. [4] It depicts a young man in bust length and three-quarter view, whose right hand holds a folded piece of sheet music.

  6. Art of Europe - Wikipedia

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    During the late 13th century and early 14th century, much of the painting in Italy was Byzantine in character, notably that of Duccio of Siena and Cimabue of Florence, while Pietro Cavallini in Rome was more Gothic in style. During the 13th century, Italian sculptors began to draw inspiration not only from medieval prototypes, but also from ...

  7. Duecento - Wikipedia

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    The art of the region of Tuscany (and northern Italy) in the second half of the 13th century was dominated by two masters: Cimabue of Florence and Duccio of Siena. Their commissions were mostly religious paintings, several of them being very large altarpieces showing the Madonna and Child.

  8. Dies irae - Wikipedia

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    Centre panel from Memling's triptych Last Judgment (c. 1467–1471) " Dies irae" (Ecclesiastical Latin: [ˈdi.es ˈi.re]; "the Day of Wrath") is a Latin sequence attributed to either Thomas of Celano of the Franciscans (1200–1265) [1] or to Latino Malabranca Orsini (d. 1294), lector at the Dominican studium at Santa Sabina, the forerunner of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas ...

  9. 13th century in music - Wikipedia

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    1271 – Amerus, Practica artis musicae. [5]1274 – Elias Salomo, Scientia artis musicae. [6]1279 – Anonymous of St Emmeram, De musica mensurata (Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cod. Lat. Mon. [Cim.] 14523), one of the two main treatises on the theory of Notre Dame polyphony.