Audible Paintings: Religious Music and Devotion to the Infancy of Christ in the Art of the Viceroyalty of Peru
Paintings are silent, but not to those who know how to listen. Some paintings appeal to the sense of hearing in order to stimulate the beholder’s emotional engagement. For eighteenth-century nuns living in the Viceroyalty of Peru, paintings could evoke Latin polyphony or villancicos, songs in the ve...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Yale University
2019
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MAVCOR journal
Year: 2019, Volume: 3, Issue: 1 |
Further subjects: | B
Women
B Music B Nativity B Christ Child B Colonial Peru B Peru B Devotion |
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Summary: | Paintings are silent, but not to those who know how to listen. Some paintings appeal to the sense of hearing in order to stimulate the beholder’s emotional engagement. For eighteenth-century nuns living in the Viceroyalty of Peru, paintings could evoke Latin polyphony or villancicos, songs in the vernacular performed in sacred contexts. |
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ISSN: | 2475-2428 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: MAVCOR journal
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.22332/mav.ess.2019.1 |