The Aris Christofellis Voice Page. Artwork sources.

The Aris Christofellis Voice Page - Artwork

Sources of the artwork on this site.


Index page
Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Musical Fête, 1747. Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Musical Fête, 1747, Oil on canvas, 207 x 247 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Operas
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Attributes of Music, 1756. Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Attributes of Music, 1756, Oil on canvas,
91 x 145 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris.

"When time goes by"
Salvador Dali, Remorse or Sphinx Embedded in the Sand, 1931. Salvador Dali, Remorse or Sphinx Embedded in the Sand, 1931, Oil on canvas, 7.5 x 10.5 inches, Kresge Art Museum, Michigan. Re-worked.

Unpublished music
Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Roma Antica, c. 1755. Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Roma Antica, c. 1755, Oil on canvas, 186 x 227 cm, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart.

Music in Pictures: "Elégie"
Jan van de Capelle, Winter Landscape, 1650s. Jan van de Capelle, Winter Landscape, 1650s, Oil on wood, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede.

Garden Secrets: "Yellow"
Photograph of Marilyn Monroe. Photograph of Marilyn Monroe, re-balanced in yellow.

4 Works for Aris Christofellis: "Eros Daemon" Movement 2
Annibale Carracci, Venus with a Satyr and Cupids, c. 1588. Annibale Carracci, Venus with a Satyr and Cupids, c. 1588, Oil on canvas,
112 x142 cm., Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.

4 Works for Aris Christofellis: "Eros Daemon" Movement 2
Alessandro Allori, Venus and Cupid, 16th century. Alessandro Allori, Venus and Cupid, 16th century, Oil on wood, Musée Fabre, Montpellier

4 Works for Aris Christofellis: "Eros Daemon" Movement 1
Annibale Carracci, Venus with a Satyr and Cupids, c. 1588. Annibale Carracci, Venus with a Satyr and Cupids, c. 1588, Oil on canvas,
112 x142 cm., Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.

Clemenza e Rigore - Duetto (Efga')
Francesco Botticini, The Three Archangels with Tobias, 1470. Francesco Botticini, The Three Archangels with Tobias, 1470, Tempera on wood, 135 x 154 cm, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.

"Dio, Clemenza e Rigore"
Jan van Eyck, The Ghent Altarpiece: God Almighty, 1426-27. Jan van Eyck, The Ghent Altarpiece: God Almighty, 1426-27, Oil on wood, Cathedral of St Bavo, Ghent.

Les castrats au temps de Mozart: "Al mio ben mi veggio avanti"
Francisco de Goya, Self-Portrait, 1798-1800. Francisco de Goya, Self-Portrait, 1798-1800, Indian ink and wash, 6x3 5/8 inches, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Les castrats au temps de Mozart: "Ti leggo in volto"
François Boucher, Portrait of Marquise de Pompadour, 1756. François Boucher, Portrait of Marquise de Pompadour, 1756, Oil on canvas, 201 x 157 cm, Alte Pinakothek, Munich.

Les castrats au temps de Mozart: "Cara, la dolce fiamma"
Jean-Marc Nattier, Portrait of a Young Woman Painter, date unknown (c. 1740-55). Jean-Marc Nattier, Portrait of a Young Woman Painter, date unknown (c. 1740-55), Oil on canvas, La Cour d'Or, Musées de Metz, Metz

Les castrats au temps de Mozart
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Confession of Love, 1771. Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Confession of Love, 1771, Oil on canvas, 318 x 215 cm, Frick Collection, New York.

From distant lands and peoples:
Berio - "The desire"
Leonardo da Vinci, Female head (La Scapigliata), c. 1508. Leonardo da Vinci, Female head (La Scapigliata), c. 1508, Oil on panel, 27 x 21 cm, Galleria Nazionale, Parma.

From distant lands and peoples:
Ravel - "I look out of my window"
Karl Brulloff, Italian Woman with a Child by a Window. 1831. Karl Brulloff, Italian Woman with a Child by a Window. 1831. Watercolor on paper. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow.

From distant lands and peoples:
Dvorak: Ach, není tu (There is nothing left)"
Pablo Picasso, Blue Nude (Seated Nude), 1902. Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Blue Nude (Seated Nude), 1902, Oil on canvas, 46 x 40 cm, Private Collection, Paris.

From distant lands and peoples:
Poulenc: "Odjazd" (The departure)
Józef Brandt, Husarz, 1890. Józef Brandt, Husarz, 1890, oil on canvas, 84 x 62 cm., Muzeum Polskie, Rapperswil.

From distant lands and peoples:
Verstovsky: The bell"
Alexey Savrasov, A Winter Road, 1870s. Alexey Savrasov, A Winter Road, 1870s, Oil on canvas, The Belorussian Museum of Arts, Minsk, Belarus.

From distant lands and peoples:
Russian folk-song: The bell"
Mikhail Vrubel. Snow Maiden, 1890s. Mikhail Vrubel. Snow Maiden (Sketch for a costume for the Rimsky-Korsakov opera, Snow Maiden), 1890s, Watercolor, gouache on paper, Ryazan Art Museum, Ryazan, Russia.

From distant lands and peoples:
Sergei Ivanovitch Taneiev: The new moon appeared"
Alexey Savrasov. Oaks on River Bank, 1867. Alexey Savrasov, Oaks on River Bank, 1867, Black and lead pencil on tinted paper, The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

From distant lands and peoples:
Arensky - "Don't turn on the light"
Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night Over the Rhone, 1888. Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night Over the Rhone, 1888, Oil on canvas, 92.0cm x 72.0cm,Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

From distant lands and peoples...
Vincent Van Gogh, Portrait Of Patience Escalier, Alers, August 1880. Vincent Van Gogh, Portrait Of Patience Escalier, Alers, August 1880, Oil on Canvas, 69 x 56 cm, Collection Niarchos.

Quel usignuolo: "Pallido il sole"
John Constable, Old Sarum, 1829. John Constable, Old Sarum, 1829. Oil on canvas. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Bronze bust of Farinelli (The Farinelli Art Gallery)
Anonymous, bronze bust of Farinelli, date unknown. Anonymous, bust of Farinelli, date unknown, Modern bronze cast of the Neoclassical original in plaster (both in museum), Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid

Grignion: engraving of Farinelli (The Farinelli Art Gallery)
Charles Grignion: engraving of Farinelli, date unknown. Charles Grignion: portrait of Farinelli, date unknown, engraving from an original by J. Amigoni, Muller Collection, New York Public Library

Farinelli in his mid-40s (The Farinelli Art Gallery)
Corrado Giaquinto, Ritratto di Carlo Broschi detto Farinelli, c. 1750. Corrado Giaquinto, Ritratto di Carlo Broschi detto Farinelli, c. 1750, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Bologna.

Farinelli in his mid-to-late 40s (The Farinelli Art Gallery)
Jacopo Amigoni, The singer Farinelli and friends, c.1750-52. Jacopo Amigoni, A Portrait of Carlo Maria Broschi, called Farinelli, wearing the Cross of the Order of Calatrava, c.1750-52, Oil on canvas, 82 x 61 cm, Museo de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid.

Farinelli in his mid-to-late 40s (The Farinelli Art Gallery)
Jacopo Amigoni, The singer Farinelli and friends, c.1750-52. Jacopo Amigoni, Portrait group: The singer Farinelli and friends, c.1750-52, Oil on canvas, 172.8 x 245.1 cm,
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia, Felton Bequest 1950 2226-4.

Farinelli in his mid- to late 40s (The Farinelli Art Gallery)
Jacopo Amigoni, "The Sopranist Carlo Broschi, called Il Farinelli", c. 1752. Jacopo Amigoni, "The Sopranist Carlo Broschi, called Il Farinelli", c. 1752, Oil on canvas, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart.

Farinelli at 30 (The Farinelli Art Gallery)
Joseph Wagner after Jacopo Amigoni, Carlo Broschi, known as Farinelli, 1735. Joseph Wagner after Jacopo Amigoni, Carlo Broschi, known as Farinelli, 1735, engraving, 29.8 x 21.2 cm., Gift of Robert M. Light, Ackland Fund, 91.102, University of North Carolina.

Farinelli at about 30 (The Farinelli Art Gallery)
Jacopo Amigoni, Ritratto di Farinelli, 1734-35. Jacopo Amigoni, Ritratto di Farinelli, 1734-35, Muzeul National de Arta al Romanieri, Bucarest.

Probable portrait of Farinelli, possibly in his 20s (The Farinelli Art Gallery)
Anonymous, Farinelli in the role of Epitide?, date unknown. Anonymous, Farinelli in the role of Epitide?, date unknown, Oil on canvas, 103 x 82 cm, Dr. Leo Schofield, Sydney, Australia.

Farinelli et son temps "Quel usignuolo"
François Boucher, Apollo Revealing his Divinity to the Shepherdess, 1750. François Boucher, Apollo Revealing his Divinity to the Shepherdess, 1750, Oil on canvas, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours.

Ottone in Villa - "Gelosia, tu già rendi l'alma mia"
John Martin, The Great Day of His Wrath, 1851-53. John Martin, The Great Day of His Wrath, 1851-53, Oil on canvas, 197 x 303 cm, Tate Gallery, London.

Ottone in Villa - "Chi seguir vuol la costanza"
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Stolen Kiss, 1787-89. Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Stolen Kiss, 1787-89, Oil on canvas, The Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

Ottone in Villa
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Fountain of Love, 1785. Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Fountain of Love, 1785, Oil on canvas, 64 x 51 cm, Wallace Collection, London.

"Superbo di me stesso"
Donato Creti, Mercury and Paris, 1745. Donato Creti, Mercury and Paris, 1745, Oil on canvas, 272 x 176 cm, Palazzo d'Accursio, Bologna.

"Superbo di me stesso": Addio miei sospiri
James Ward, Gordale Scar, 1811-13. James Ward, Gordale Scar, 1811-13, Oil on canvas, 332 x 421 cm, Tate Gallery, London.

Dove in the clefts of the rock: "Man Clothed in Linen": Aria (Konen tsur)
Georg Raphael Donner, Adoring Angel, 1733-35. Georg Raphael Donner, Adoring Angel, 1733-35, Lead, height 200 cm, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest. Colour re-balanced photo.

Dove in the clefts of the rock: Zemirot (Ps. 13:6)
Ketubah, Meshed, Persia, 1889. Ketubah, Meshed, Persia, 1889, Hebraic Section, Library of Congress. Photo, re-worked.

Dove in the clefts of the rock:
Aria (Kol na-neshamah)
The Golden Haggadah, illustrated 14th century Hebrew manuscript. The Golden Haggadah, illustrated 14th century Hebrew manuscript, The British Library, London.

Dove in the clefts of the rock
Giovanni Bellini, Angel Announcing, c. 1500. Giovanni Bellini, Angel Announcing, c. 1500, Oil on canvas, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice.

Giacomo Carissimi: Oratorio di Daniele profeta
Pieter Pauwel Rubens, Daniel in the Lion's Den, c. 1615. Pieter Pauwel Rubens, Daniel in the Lion's Den, c. 1615, Oil on canvas, 224.3 x 330.4 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington.

L'Olimpiade
Claude-Joseph Vernet, Storm with a Shipwreck, 1754. Claude-Joseph Vernet, Storm with a Shipwreck, 1754, Oil on canvas, 87 x 137 cm, Wallace Collection, London.

Recital: Stephen Foster: "Jeanie with the light brown hair"
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Mlle. Irène Cahen d'Anvers, 1880. Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Mlle. Irène Cahen d'Anvers, 1880, Oil on canvas, 65 x 54 cm.,Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zurich. Re-worked.

Recital: Alban Berg: "Die Nachtigall"
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Roseleaf, 1870. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Roseleaf, 1870, Pencil on paper, Private collection.

Recital: Alban Berg: "Schliesse mir die Augen beide"
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Beata Beatrix (Blessed Beatrice), c. 1877 - 1882. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Beata Beatrix (Blessed Beatrice), Portrait of his deceased wife, Elizabeth Sidal, c. 1877 - 1882.

Recital
Aubrey Beardsley, The Black Cape, 1894. Aubrey Beardsley, The Black Cape, 1894. Illustration to Salome.

L'Âge d'Or des Castrats (2nd version)
François Lemoyne, Perseus and Andromeda, 1723. François Lemoyne, Perseus and Andromeda, 1723, Oil on canvas, 184 x 151 cm, Wallace Collection, London.

Hommage à Farinelli
François Boucher, Rinaldo and Armida, 1734. François Boucher, Rinaldo and Armida, 1734, Oil on canvas, 135,5 x 170,5 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Hommage à Farinelli: "Pallido il sole"
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Stormy Landscape, c. 1638. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Stormy Landscape, c. 1638, Oil on wood, 52 x 72 cm, Herzog Anton-Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig.

Music in Shakespeare's time: Rest, Sweet Nymphs
Jean Goujon, Nymphs, 1547-49, Marble. Jean Goujon, Nymphs, 1547-49, Marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris

Music in Shakespeare's time: When to her lute Corrina sings
Orazio Gentileschi, Lute Player, c. 1626. Orazio Gentileschi, Lute Player, c. 1626, Oil on canvas, 144 x 130 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington.

Music in Shakespeare's time: Never weather-beaten sail
Jacopo Bassano, St. Jerome, 1556. Jacopo Bassano, St. Jerome, 1556, Oil on canvas, 119 x 154 cm, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice.

Music in Shakespeare's time: Greensleeves
El Greco, El Caballero de la Mano en el Pecho, 1577-84. Domenikos Theotokopoulos (El Greco), El Caballero de la Mano en el Pecho, 1577-84, Oil on canvas, 81 x 66 cm, Museo del Prado, Madrid

Music in Shakespeare's time: Si dolce è'l tormento
Nicholas Hilliard, A Youth Leaning Against a Tree Among Roses, c.1588. Nicholas Hilliard, A Youth Leaning Against a Tree Among Roses, c.1588, Watercolor on vellum, Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Music in Shakespeare's time
Droeshout, Shakespeare, copper-engraving, c. 1623. Martin Droeshout, copper-engraving, Title-page of the 'First Folio' (1623).

Music in Shakespeare's time
Frans Hals, Buffoon Playing a Lute, c. 1623. Frans Hals, Buffoon Playing a Lute, c. 1623, Oil on canvas, 70 x 62 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris.

L'Âge d'Or des Castrats (1st version)
Pietro Longhi, The Ridotto, 1740s. Pietro Longhi, The Ridotto, 1740s, Oil on canvas, Raccotta Salon, Venice.


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