The Power of Music & The Madness of Art

1. The Power of Music
&
The Madness of Art
© 2014 Deborah Feller

2. Detail, Émile Wauters, Le Peintre du Rouge-Cloître
(1872, oil on canvas, 6 x 9 ft [1.86 x 2.75 c]). Royal
Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels.

3. Émile Wauters, Le Peintre du Rouge-Cloître (1872, oil on canvas, 6
x 9 ft [1.86 x 2.75 m]). Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels.

4. Irene Carr, Flashdance-What a Feeling

5. Émile Wauters, Le Peintre du Rouge-Cloître (1872, oil on canvas, 6
x 9 ft [1.86 x 2.75 m]). Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels.

6. Melancholy Healed by Music in
Aldobrandino of Siena, Livres pour la santé
garder (Régime du corps) (late 13th century).
The British Library, London. Sloane MS

7. Detail, Émile Wauters, Le Peintre du Rouge-Cloître
(1872, oil on canvas, 6 x 9 ft [1.86 x 2.75 m]). Royal
Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels.

8. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio,
David with the Head of Goliath (1609-10,
oil on canvas, 49¼ x 39¾ in [125 x 101
cm]). Rome, Museo e Galleria Borghese.

9. Michelangelo Buonarroti, restored and completed by
Tiberio Calcagni, Bandini Pietá (1550-55, marble,
height 7⅜ ft [2.26 m]). Museo dell’Opera del Duomo,
Florence, Italy. Photo © Marie-Lan Nguyen.

10. Vincent van Gogh,
Self-Portrait with
Bandaged Ear (1889,
oil on canvas, 23⅓ x
19⅓ in [60 x 49 cm]).
The Courtauld
Gallery, London.

11. Adam Elsheimer, Minerva as Patroness of Arts and Sciences (c. 1600-1605, oil on
copper, 3⅜ x 5¾ in [8.6 x 14.6 cm]). The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK.

12. Hugo van der Goes, The Portinari Altarpiece (1475, oil on wood,
8¼ × 4⅔ ft [2.53 × 1.41 m]). Uffizi Gallery, Florence.

13. Queen Mary Psalter, early 14th
century. British Royal Library.
Bible of Duke Borso d’Este, mid-15th century.
Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, Modena.

14. Flute Made of Mammoth Ivory,
Ulm, Germany (c. 30,000-37,000 BP,
7⅔ in [18.7 cm] in length). Photo:
© H. Jensen, University of
Tübingen.
Whistles Made of Reindeer
Bones, Petersfels,
Germany (c. 15,000 BP).
Badisches
Landesmuseum,
Karlsruhe, Germany.
Photo © Don Hitchcock.

15. Oinochoe with the Myth of Orpheus (ceramics,
red figure). Tuscania, Italy: Museo Archeologica.
© 2006, SCALA, Florence / Art Resource, NY.

16. Raphael, School of Athens (c. 1510-12, fresco, 19 x 27 ft
[5.8 x 8.23 m]). Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican Palace,
Vatican State. Erich Lessing / Art Resource, N.Y.
Detail of Pythagoras.

17. Pier Francesco Mola, Mercury Putting Argus to Sleep (c. 1645-55, oil on canvas, 23⅛ x 39⅛ in
[58.7 x 99.4 cm]). Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH.

18. Boethius, De Institutione
Musica (early 6th century CE).

19. Gonzales Coques, The Artist in
His Studio (1650, oil on canvas,
25½ x 32¼ in [65 x 82 cm]).
Staatliches Museum, Schwerin,
Germany.

20. Frans van Mieris the Elder, The Artist in His Studio
(1659, oil on panel, 23⅔ x 18½ in [60 x 47 cm]).
Staatliche Kunstammlungen, Gemäldegalerie Alte
Meister, Dresden, Germany.

21. Unknown (formerly attributed to Paul Bril),
Self-Portrait of an Artist (c. 1595-1600, oil
on canvas, 28 x 30¾ in [71 x 78 cm]).
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of
Design, Providence, Rhode Island.

22. Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, The Old Song (1959, oil on canvas, 3⅓ x 5 ft [1.02 x 1.53
m]). Courtesy Galerie St. Etienne, NY. © The Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Trust.

23. Rembrandt Harmensz. van
Rijn, Saul and David (1655-60,
oil on canvas, 4¼ x 5⅜ ft [1.3
x 1.64 m]). Mauritshaus, The
Hague, Netherlands.

24. From Daniel J. Levitin, This is Your Brain on Music, © 2006.

25. Jan Steen, The Doctor’s Visit (c. 1660-
65, oil on panel, 18⅛ x 14½ in [46 x
36.8 cm]). Philadelphia Museum of
Art, Philadelphia, PA.

26. Copy after Jan Steen, Lady at a Clavichord
(after 1661 or 1664, oil on canvas, 25¼ x 21¾
in [64.1 x 55.2 cm]). Philadelphia Museum of
Art, Philadelphia, PA.

27. Hugo van der Goes, Portrait of a Man (c. 1475,
oil on wood, 12½ x 10¼ in [31.8 x 26 cm]). The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY.
Hugo van der
Goes, A
Benedictine Monk
(c. 1478, oil on
wood, 9⅞ x 7⅜ in
[25.1 x 18.7 cm]).
The Metropolitan
Museum of Art,
New York, NY.

28. Hugo van der Goes Death of a Virgin (1470–80, oil
on panel, 4 × 4¾ ft [1.23 × 1.48 m]).
Groeningemuseum. Bruges, Belgium.
Hugo van der Goes Trinity Altarpiece (c. 1478-79, oil on panel, each panel: 6⅔
x 3¼ ft [2.02 x 1.01 m]). National Galleries Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland.