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ABOUT MUSIC IN SPANISH GOLDEN AGE PAINTING MARÍA A. FLÓREZ ASENSIO |
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The especially sensory conception of art explains why, due to its persuasive and emotional power, the Baroque grants the sight and the ear supremacy above any other sense. This question set up an enforced competitive dynamics between both of them that was often reflected in theatre, always substantiated by its basic pillars: poetry, music and painting. This way, it is quite normal that baroque artist find out soon that music and painting shares many of their conventions, effects and concepts. It explains why Spanish music composed for the theatre, adopted a plastic outlook, frequently found in "musical painting" examples, whereas, on the other hand is not uncommon to find the graphic representation of music in Golden Age paintings, in view of its rich repertory of symbols which provides a wide variety of meanings that paves the way for new different "musical paintings" types, but in relationship. |