WOMEN, MAKING MUSIK AT A BANQUET
(CUTTING, 15TH CENTURY B.C.)
Old Egyptian Mural Painting
Thebes, Dieserkere-Seneb’s Tomb
GITERN-PLAYING GIRL AND DANCER WITH TAMBOURINE
(1ST HALF OF MILLENNIUM B.C.)
Relief-slab made of burned clay, beight 13,7 cm.
Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Department of Asia Minor
DURIS (C.500-460 B.C.)
MAN BLOWING THE AULOS AND ANOTHER DRINKING OUT OF A VESSEL
(picture inside a vessel, c. 480 B.C.)
Attic vessel, total diameter 33 cm
Munich, Collection of Antiquities
AULOS BLOWER AND CITHERN PLAYER (475 B.C.)
Atruscan Mural Painting (cutting)
Tarquinia, Tomb of the Leopards
GIRL BLOWING AULOS FROM LUDOVISIAN THERONE (c. 470 B.C.)
Grecian Marble Relief, height 84 cm.
Rome, Museum of the Thermes
ORPHEUS WITH THE TRACIANS (c.440 B.C.)
Grecian Urn painted, height 51 cm.
Berlin,Staatliche Museen, Department of Antiquities, Charlottenburg
MUSIC MAKING BOY (cutting, IV th century)
Sicilian floor-mosaic (total size 21x4 m.)
Piazza Armerina
KING DAVID, PLAYING THE HARP
(1st half of XIII th century)
Detail from the Relief of the Tympanon
Trzebnica (Trebnitz), former Cistercian Church
MANESSE MANUSCRIPT (C.1300)
HEINRICH VON MEISSEN (FRAUENLOB)
Water-colours on parchment, 27,5x18,3 cm
Heidelberg, Universitatbibliothek
HUBERT AND JAN VAN EYCK (C. 1370-1426, C. 1390-1441)
SINGING ANGELS AND MUSIC-MAKING ANGELS (C. 1430)
Oil on wood, each at 160x69 cm.
Ghent, St. Bavo
INITIALS FROM ONE MANUSCRIPT OF SONGS
(15TH CENTURI)
Psaltari chori “M”, ms. M.f. 169 v (cutting)
Zadar (Yugo-Slavia)
MELOZZO DA FORLI (1438-1494)
ANGEL WITH LUTE, LOOKING DOWN (C. 1480)
Fresco-picture (fragment)
Rome, St. Peter’s Cathedral
ALBRECHT DURER (1471-1528)
DRUMMER AND WHISTLER (c.1500, panel of the altar at Jachbach)
Oil on linden wood, 93x51 cm.
Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum
MICHELANGELO DA CARAVAGGIO (1573-1609)
LUTE PLAYER (cutting, 1595)
Oil on canvas, 94x119 cm.
St.-Pethersburg, Hermitage
HENDRIK TERBRUGGHEN (1588-1629)
THE DUETT (1628?)
Oil on canvas, 106x81 cm.
Paris, Louvre
ADRIAEN BROUWER (1605/06-1638)
MUSIC-MAKING PEASANTS (“THE HEARING”)
Oil on wood, 23x20 cm.
Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen (Pinakothek)
GERARD DOU (1613-1675)
THE VIOLINIST (cutting, 1665)
Oil, 40x29 cm.
St.-Pethersburg, Hermitage
GERARD TERBORCH (1617-1681)
THE CONCERT (cutting, c.1660)
Oil on wood, 56x44 cm.
Berlin, Staatliche Museen
JEAN-BAPTISTE OUDRY (1686-1715)
TABLE IN THE ARTIST’S STUDIO WITH MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS (1713)
Oil on canvas, 85x127 cm.
Schwerin, Staatliches Museum
PIETRO LONGHI (1702-1785)
THE CONCERT (1741)
Oil on canvas, 60x84 cm.
Venice, Gallerie dell’Accademie
SUZUKI HARUNOBU (1725-1770)
THE COURTESAN UMEGE TUNING THE LUTE (1770)
Couloured wood-engraving (detail)
Whole size 21.3x14.7 cm.
Prague, National Gallery
JEAN-HONORE FRAGONARD (1732-1806)
THE MUSIC LESSON (cutting)
Oil on canvas, 108x120 cm.
Paris, Louvre
MORITZ VON SCHWIND (1804-1871)
THE SINGER’S COMPETITION ON THE WARTBURG (cutting, 1854/55)
Mural picture, height 265 cm.
Eisenach, Wartburg (Singer’s Hall)
CARL SPITZWEG (1808-1885)
THE SPANISH SERENADE (cutting, 1864)
Oil on canvas, 67.5x53.2 cm.
Munich, Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen (Pinakothek)
MARC CHAGALL (1887)
THE VIOLINIST
Oil on canvas, 189x157.5 cm.
Amsterdam, Stedelijk-Museum
