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La ‘gentildama’ e liutista bolognese Lucia Garzoni in un ritratto di Lavinia Fontana

With a "Nota storico-musicale":

Dinko Fabris
Elementi musicali nel Ritratto di Lucia Bonasoni Garzoni

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Author Marco Tanzi (and Dinko Fabris)
Series Recercare - Rivista per lo studio e la pratica della musica antica - Journal for the study and practice of early music
Nr. XXXIII-2021
Size 17×24, pp. 201
Year 2021
ISBN 9788855431040

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The recent appearance (spring 2021) in the Madrid antiques market of a Portrait of a noblewoman with a lute and a music manuscript, bearing a misinterpreted inscription with her name, allowed Marco Tanzi to correctly identify the sitter with the Bolognese noblewoman Lucia Bonasoni Garzoni and to attribute the work to the painter Lavinia Fontana, as the relationship between the painter and the noblewoman is documented. The identification of Lucia Garzoni led to a re-examination of the female noble cultural context of late sixteenth-century Bologna, as well as of the literary sources that illustrate this milieu, and of the respective roles of the painter and the noblewoman musician.
A note by Dinko Fabris, in appendix to the article, examines closely the musical elements present in the portrait: a small six-course lute and a manuscript music book, showing a fragment of a page in ‘mixed’ notation for voice (on staff) and lute in tablature.

Marco Tanzi is professor of Art History at the University of Salento. His research interests focus on the figurative art in Northern Italy from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, with particular attention to wandering artists along unconventional paths of the Italian artistic geography and, more recently, to the Renaissance in Terra d’Otranto. He edited numerous exhibition catalogues, and authored several volumes, among them Arcigoticissimo Bembo (2011), La Zenobia di don Álvaro (2015), In laude del famosissimo Cabalao (2020), catalogue entries, and articles. He organized various exhibitions, including Pedro Fernández da Murcia, lo Pseudo Bramantino. Un pittore girovago nell’Italia del primo Cinquecento (1997), Barocco nella Bassa (1999), Disegni cremonesi del Cinquecento (1999), “Quelle carte de triumphi che se fanno a Cremona”. I tarocchi dei Bembo (2013), Genovesino (Cremona, 2017, and Piacenza, 2018), Attorno agli amori. Camillo Boccaccino sacro e profano (2018).
marco.tanzi@unisalento.it

Dinko Fabris teaches musicology at the University of Basilicata in Matera. He is an external supervisor in the DocArtes doctoral program of the Leiden University. He was the first Italian president of the International Musicological Society (IMS). Currently, he is chair of the IMS Study Group “Mediterranean Music Studies”. Since 2020 he is also head of the new Department of research, publishing and communication at San Carlo Opera House in Naples. He is a member of several scientific committees, including the editorial board of Cavalli’s Operas and The New Gesualdo Edition (Bärenreiter). Among his publications, largely centered on Neapolitan Renaissance and Baroque music, as well as early notations and musical iconography, the books Music in seventeenth-century Naples (reprint Routledge 2016) and Partenope da Sirena a Regina. Il mito musicale di Napoli (Cafagna 2016).
dinko.fabris@unibas.it