That Divine Order: Music and the Visual Arts from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century
This scholarly, yet jargon-free, exploration of the relationship between music and the visual arts examines how that relationship was conceived at various times by practising artists and musicians, by critics and theorists of art
Specifications:- Format: Hardback
- Size: 245 × 172 mm (9 5/8 × 6 3/4 in)
- Pages: 304 pp
- Illustrations: 68 illustrations
- ISBN: 9780714843513
"This is a fine book for students of art and music, which has been thoroughly researched and cogently written. It is also liberally illustrated with monochrome figures and a number of coulour plates."—Musical Opinions
"Over a long period, Peter Vergo has submitted music and the visual arts to sustained comparative analysis. Often on untrodden ground, for a time the only voice in British scholarship in this field, his work is consistently engaging and enlightening... Vergo teases logical sequences from dense histories – for instance the trajectory of Chopin-Delacroix-Baudelaire-Whistler-Debussy... The range and scope of the two volumes That Divine Order and The Music of Painting is astonishing... Together, these two volumes offer a dictionary of the subject that will be invaluable to scholarship for years to come. This latest study not only makes it clear once and for all the significance of the interchange of the arts, but, I would suggest, casts new light on Modernism itself."—The Burlington Magazine