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Allegory of Music (ceiling lunette)   Antonio Bellucci (1654–1726)

Allegory of Music (ceiling lunette)

Antonio Bellucci (1654–1726)

c. 1700

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Die Musik (Deckenlunette)

From 1692 to 1704, Bellucci lived and worked in Vienna and its environs, where his commissions included painting altarpieces for the abbey church of Klosterneuburg. He began working for Prince Johann Adam Andreas before 1697. Like the other allegories of Astrology, Sculpture and Painting the “Allegory of Music” also once embellished the ceremonial hall of the Liechtenstein City Palace on Bankgasse. All classes of instruments are depicted in the painting: keyboard instruments, strings and woodwind, as well as singing in the form of the female figure giving voice at the centre of the picture.

Material/technique
oil on canvas
Measurements
c. 274 × 190 cm
Acquisition
acquired in 1697 by Prince Johann Adam Andreas I von Liechtenstein
Artists/makers/authors
Antonio Bellucci
Detailed information
Inventory number
GE 1079
Provenance
acquired in 1697 by Prince Johann Adam Andreas I von Liechtenstein
Iconography
Allegory/Personification
Literature
Vincenzio Fanti, Descrizzione completa di tutto ciò che ritrovasi nella galleria di pittura e scultura di Sua Altezza Giuseppe Wenceslao del S.R.I. Principe Regnante della casa di Lichtenstein, Wien 1767, S. 17-18

M. Fuhrmann, Historische Beschreibung .... von der Residenzstadt Wien und ihren Vorstädten, Bd. 3, Bd. Bd. 3, Wien 1770, Cap. XI, S. 162

Johann Dallinger von Dalling, Description des Tableaux, et des Piéces de Sculpture, que renferme la Gallerie de son Altesse François Joseph Chef et Prince Regnant de la Maison de Liechtenstein, Vienne 1780, S. 3

F. d'Arcais, L'Attività viennese di Antonio Bellucci, in: Arte Veneta 18 1964, S. 105, Abb. 107

Fabrizio Magani, Antonio Bellucci, Rimini 1995, S. 109, Kat. 43.3

Matthias Reuss, Antonio Belluccis Gemäldefolge für das Stadtpalais Liechtenstein in Wien, in: Studien zur Kunstgeschichte, Bd. 126, Bd. Bd. 126, Hildesheim-Zürich-New York 1998, S. 213-215, Nr. 1.3, Abb. S. 339, Nr. 3

Ausst.-Kat. Masterworks from the Collections of the Prince of Liechtenstein, Johann Kräftner (Hg.), The National Art Center, Tokyo 3.10.2012–23.12.2012; The Museum of Art, Kochi 5.1.2013–7.3.2013; Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto 19.3.2013–9.6.2013, erschienen Tokyo 2012

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