Allegory on the praise of music, Praise of music (series title), Encomium musices (series title on object), Allegory on the praise of music. Title picture for the series entitled: Encomium Mucies. In the middle an open book with the music notation of the six-part motet: Nata, et grata polo, et vocum discordia concors Musica, scitque homines flectere, scitque Deos. Flectere scitque feras: at quisquis nescius illa flectier, is nec homo, nec fera, sed lapis est (Music is born in heaven and pleases God with its polyphony that sounds in harmony. It can touch both mortals and gods, and it can even wild animals. The one who is not moved by music is not a man or an animal, but a stone). The music book is held by three female figures: Harmonia, Musica and Mensura. Musica (in the middle) wears a laurel wreath on her head. Harmonia (left) has a winged heart with ears in her right hand. Mensura has a T-shaped instrument with bells in the left hand (the predecessor of the metronome?). The three personifications are surrounded by musical instruments and music books that together form an ornamental border around the music book. They are contemporary instruments, reconstructions of old instruments, as well as their own inventions. The print is part of an album., print, print maker: Adriaen Collaert, after design by: Jan van der Straet, (mentioned on object), publisher: Philips Galle, (mentioned on object), Antwerp, 1587 - 1592, paper, engraving, height, 235 mm × width, 286 mm
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