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Description: | This is one of a group of four paintings depicting the arts: Music, Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Loosely derived from classical imagery and the mythological notion of the Muses, these eighteenth-century allegories were tailored to a taste for frivolous decadence. Here, to demonstrate Music, whimsical putti with an array of instruments and a sheet of music score harmonise together in a pastoral woodland clearing. The tambourine, pipes and lyre were particularly evocative of the mythical context. The association of such instruments, and music in general, with scenes of love is another deliberate connotation of this work. | Subjects: | allegory (music); figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Wit, Jacob de (Dutch painter, 1695-1754) Æ Attributed to circle of Previously attributed to Kauffmann, Angelica (Swiss painter and printmaker, 1741-1807) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8839... | Go to resource |
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