{"id":6136,"date":"2025-04-23T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voicedetective.com\/?p=6136"},"modified":"2025-04-28T21:33:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T19:33:35","slug":"hn007-cesare-ripas-iconographia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voicedetective.com\/de\/2025\/04\/hn007-cesare-ripas-iconographia\/","title":{"rendered":"HN007 CESARE RIPA\u2019S ICONOGRAPHIA"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Cesare Ripa<\/i>\u2019s famous Iconographia<\/i> published in 1593 provides 200 different iconographic descriptions of various ideas, concepts and moral guidance. Our description is the translation made by Edward A. Maser.[i]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

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Number 192 is Musica<\/i>.<\/p>\n

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Musica<\/i> is depicted as a beautiful young woman sitting astride a celestial sphere. The sphere represents the harmony of the spheres of heaven upon which earthly harmony is dependent. She is young and beautiful because Music itself is pleasurable and beautiful. Nearby is an anvil from whence according to legend Pythagoras<\/i> had his moment of inspiration that the tones struck might be written down for musicians. There is also a set of scales representing the blending and balance required for harmonious music. Before her a shrub plays a lute and at the cherub\u2019s feet a bird singing – these two represent instruments made by humankind and the music of nature herself. In the background the west wind blows gently upon a flock of swans who are alleged to sing only if praised by gentle and warm encouragement, or \u201c<\/span>like some musicians who will only sing if they are soothed by the soft breeze of praise and admiration,\u201d to quote Ripa himself. Finally, the god of Music, Apollo himself is present in the form of a monument with a lyre – his representative musical instrument.<\/p>\n

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[i]<\/span><\/sup><\/a> RIPA, CESARE. ICONOGRAPHIA. HERTEL EDITION 1758-60 TRANSLATED BY MASER, EDWARD A., AS BAROQUE AND ROCOCO PICTORIAL IMAGERY, NEW YORK, DOVER PUBLICATIONS (1971). NO.192 (NO PAGE NUMBERING)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Did you know that Cesare Ripa\u2019s famous Iconographia published in 1593 provides 200 different iconographic descriptions of various ideas, concepts and moral guidance. Our description is the translation made by Edward A. Maser. <\/p>\n

Number 192 is Musica.<\/p>\n

Musica is depicted as a beautiful young woman sitting astride a celestial sphere. The sphere represents the harmony of the spheres of heaven upon which earthly harmony is dependent. She is young and beautiful because Music itself is pleasurable and beautiful. Nearby is an anvil from whence according to legend Pythagoras had his moment of inspiration that the tones struck might be written down for musicians. There is also a set of scales representing the blending and balance required for harmonious music. Before her a shrub plays a lute and at the cherub\u2019s feet a bird singing – these two represent instruments made by humankind and the music of nature herself. In the background the west wind blows gently upon a flock of swans who are alleged to sing only if praised by gentle and warm encouragement, or \u201clike some musicians who will only sing if they are soothed by the soft breeze of praise and admiration,\u201d to quote Ripa himself. Finally, the god of Music, Apollo himself is present in the form of a monument with a lyre – his representative musical instrument.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-6136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-front-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voicedetective.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voicedetective.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voicedetective.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voicedetective.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voicedetective.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voicedetective.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voicedetective.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voicedetective.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voicedetective.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voicedetective.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}