In eighteenth-century England, "variety" became a prized aesthetic in musical culture. Not only was variety--of counterpoint, harmony, melody, and orchestration--expected for good composition, but it also manifested in cultural mediums such as songbook anthologies, which compiled miscellaneous songs ...
A study of painting in Italy during the 17th and 18th centuries, including the works of "minor" artists such as Ferrau Fenzoni and Francesco Foschi. The collection begins and ends with two great paintings - Caravaggio's "St Catherine" and the "Death of Hyacinthus", by Giambattista Tiepolo.
This volume contains 10 representative works of art in the Huntington collection that illustrate the richness and diversity of British painting during the later 18th and early 19th centuries. Artists at this time borrowed styles from ancient Greece and China up to the just closing rococo period.
