Sujet
Una Toccata, from the picture by Miss C. Phillott, Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours, 1883. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
Una Toccata, from the picture by Miss C. Phillott, exhibited in the Gallery of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours, 1883. 'Una toccata, literally a touch, is the Italian noun signifying the production of a few notes, or striking a few chords or playing a...melody or harmony, on a musical instrument by way of...prelude - as a sonata di preludio. It is therefore not quite analogous to the...French...verb toucher, as in toucher le piano, which means simply playing that instrument, and has not a counterpart in the Italian toccare. For the Italians employ the verb giuocare, to play, as we do in reference to instrumental performances. "Una toccata" is, therefore, a happy idiom, and is very appropriately applied to the drawing by Miss Constance Phillott...The Italian word consorts with the type of the fair girl "touching" her mandoline, and with the reminiscences of Venetian and Florentine belle donne of the days of Giorgione and Titian and Leonardo, whom she resembles in the disposal of her luxuriant hair, and the full-sleeved fashion of her sumptuous robe. She is very likely an improvisatrice, so instinct with music and passion, art and poetry, does she seem to be...full of the sentiment of Italian song and beauty and love'. T. J. G. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM25A51_025
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Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
49,5Mo (7,4Mo) / 31,1cm x 39,9cm / 3673 x 4708 (300dpi)