Saturday, June 6, 2026

Musical

Federico Zandomeneghi
Singing Lesson
1890
oil on canvas
Gallerie di Piazza Scala, Milan


Thérèse Lessore
Man singing to Accompaniment
1920
watercolor on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Philippe Halsman
Marian Anderson
1945
gelatin silver print
National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Anonymous French Sculptor
Three Angels singing the Gloria
(fragment of Nativity scene)
ca. 1467
painted stone
Musée du Louvre

Hendrick ter Brugghen
The Concert
1629
oil on canvas
Palazzo Barberini, Rome

Alfred Edward Chalon
Opera singer Antonio Tamburlini
in Bellini's I Puritani in London

1835
watercolor on paper
British Museum

Giovanni Lanfranco
Venus playing the Harp
(depiction of an actual harp owned by the Barberini)
ca. 1630-34
oil on canvas
Palazzo Barberini, Rome

Rutilio Manetti
Music-making by Candlelight
before 1639
oil on canvas
Palazzo Chigi Saraceni, Siena

Henry Somm
Yvette Guilbert singing
ca. 1900
gouache on paper
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Sigismondo Caula
Concert with Ten Musicians
ca. 1685
drawing
British Museum

Pietro Longhi
Il Concertino
1741
oil on canvas
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Annibale Gatti
Fête Champêtre
1865
ceiling painting
Villa Favard di Rovezzano, Florence

Giorgione (Giorgio Barbarelli)
The Concert
1508
oil on canvas
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Jacob Jordaens
As the Old Sing, so Pipe the Young
before 1678
chalk and watercolor on paper
British Museum

Jacques Stella
Angelic Chorus in Clouds
before 1657
drawing
British Museum

Taddeo Zuccaro
Apollo and the Muses on Parnassus
ca. 1553
detached fresco
Palazzo Barberini, Rome

Annie Leibovitz
Jessye Norman, New York
1988
gelatin silver print
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

from Love and Death: Last Lines

Thus much and more; and yet thou lov'st me not,
    And never wilt! Love dwells not in our will.
Nor can I blame thee, though it be my lot
    To strongly, wrongly, vainly love thee still. 

– George Gordon, Lord Byron (1820)