Divine Music in Archaic and Classical Greek Art by Carolyn Laferrire

Divine Music in Archaic and Classical Greek Art by Carolyn Laferrire

In this volume, Carolyn M. Laferri re examines Athenian vase-paintings and reliefs depicting the gods most frequently shown as musicians to reconstruct how images suggest the sounds of the music the gods made. Incorporating insights from recent work in sensory studies, she applies formal analysis together with literary and archaeological evidence to reconstruct the musical culture of Athens. Laferri re shows how images suggest the sounds of the gods' music. This representational strategy, whereby sight and sound are blurred, conveys the 'unhearable' nature of their music: Because it cannot be physically heard, it falls to human imagination to provide its sounds and awaken viewers' multisensory engagement. Moreover, when situated within their likely original contexts, the objects establish a network of interaction between the viewer, the visualized music, and the landscape, all of which determined how divine music was depicted, perceived, and reciprocated. Laferri re demonstrates that participation in the gods' musical performances offered worshippers an multisensory experience of divine presence.

Carolyn M. Laferrière is Assistant Curator of Ancient Mediterranean Art at the Princeton University Art Museum and the associate editor for the journal Greek and Roman Musical Studies.

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ISBN 13	9781009315944
ISBN 10	1009315943
Title	Divine Music in Archaic and Classical Greek Art
Author	Carolyn Laferrière
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2024-02-29
Number of pages	302
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