#Laurent de La Hyre

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Allegory of Music

1649

Laurent de La Hyre

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Les mots n'avancent plus dans ce lointain qui s'installe entre nous. Les mots s'enlisent en silence dans l'égarement des voix. L'envie a basculé.

(Dans la portée des ombres, extrait)

© Pierre Cressant

(Lundi 17 octobre 2005)

[lionofchaeronea]

St. Paul Shipwrecked on Malta, Laurent de La Hyre, 1630

[art-allegory]

Allegory of Dialect

Artist: Laurent de la Hyre (French, 1606-1656)

Date: 1650

Medium: OIl on Canvas

Collection: Private Collection

Description

This eloquent and noble Allegories of Rhetoric was originally made for a suite of paintings executed by La Hyre in 1649 and 1650. Depicting the Seven Liberal Arts that are the foundation of classical education as codified in Antiquity – Arithmetic, Astronomy, Geometry, Grammar and Music, as well as Dialectic and Rhetoric – the set of paintings were likely installed around the walls of a single, grand room in the house of Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux (1613-1668), a member of the Council of State, who resided on rue d’Angoûlmois in the Marais quarter of Paris. Although today scattered in collections throughout the world, all of the paintings in La Hyre’s original series have survived and can be identified, as well as several replicas most likely from the artist’s workshop.

[oldsardens]

Laurent de La Hyre - Glaucus and Scylla

[lemuseum]

[atna2-34-75]

Laurent de la Hyre

L'Aveuglement des habitants de Sodome (1639)

Louvre

[themuseumwithoutwalls]

MWW Artwork of the Day (4/10/23) Laurent de La Hyre (French, 1606-1656) Allegory of Music (1649) Oil on canvas, 105.7 x 144.1 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Charles B. Curtis Fund)

The allegorical figure tunes a theorbo. At her shoulder is a songbird, symbol of natural music, whereas by contrast she may be musica artificialis, modern music theory and practice. To the right are various contemporary instruments and scores: a lute, a violin, two recorders, a vocal exercise, and a song in two parts. This canvas, originally flanked by two music-making putti (Musée Magnin, Dijon), belonged to a series of the seven Liberal Arts commissioned by Gédéon Tallemant (1613–1668) for his house in the Marais quarter of Paris.

For more of this artist's work, see this MWW gallery/album: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.445039122268129&type=3

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art history moodboard – dance fever by florence + the machine

The Queen in “Hamlet” – Edwin Austin Abbey // Dance to the Music of Time – follower of Laurent de la Hyre // Play of the Nereides – Arnold Böcklin // // El Jaleo – John Singer Sargent // Vanity – Frank Cadogan Cowper // A Still Life of Tulips, Roses, Bluebells, a Peony, and Other Flowers in a Glass Roemer on a Wooden Ledge with a Dragonfly – Jacob van Hilsdonck // Ulysses and the Sirens – Herbert James Draper  // Marie Camargo – Nicolas Lancret // Cassandra – Evelyn De Morgan 

[centuriespast]

Laurent de La Hyre Angelica and Medoro 1641 Oil on canvas, 141 x 141 cm Private collection

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Caravaggio (Italian,1571-1610)

Laurent de La Hyre - Allegory of Music, 1649

oil on canvas

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La lumière ne passe pas ce matin, prisonnier de ma nuit tourmentée.

Je ne la distingue plus. L'invisible m'échappe aux quatre coins de l'espace.

La paix des nuits n’a pas eu lieu et l’art du jour me laisse indifférent.

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(Dans la portée des ombres, extrait)

© Pierre Cressant

(dimanche 16 octobre 2005)

[thatsotruegf]

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous / Taylor Swift, gold rush / Laurent de la Hyre, The Fall of Icarus

[art-allegory]

Allegory of Rhetoric

Artist: Laurent de La Hyre (French, 1606–1656)

Date: 1650

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Private Collection

[oldsardens]

Laurent de La Hyre - Rhetoric

[atna2-34-75]

Laurent de la Hyre, Dying Adonis (1628)

Louvre