#baroque

“Because of the great zeal and devotion which I experienced in executing well the two pictures which His Highness commissioned me to make”

“Rembrandt emphasizes here the urge for a place with bright light, necessary to view his painting well. Not certain is which painting by Rembrandt is meant here.”

“My [dear] Sir: Let me first offer my kind regards. I agree that I should come soon to see how the picture accords with the rest. As regards the price, I certainly deserve 200 pounds for it, but shall be content with whatever His Excellency pays me. And if you, Sir, do not deem it presumptuous, I shall not neglect to requite the favor. Your humble and devoted servant Rembrandt”

“I cannot refrain from presenting you, [dear] Sir, my latest work.”

“..that I am very diligently engaged in proficiently completing the three Passion paintings which his Excellency has personally commissioned me [to do]: an Entombment [6] , a Resurrection, and an Ascension of Christ.. .Of the above three, one has been completed, namely Christ's Ascension to Heaven, and the other two are more than half”

“version in original Dutch (origineel citaat van Rembrandt, in Nederlands): Een vroom gemoet / Acht eer voor goet”

“A pious mind / Places honor above wealth”

“this short quote is written at the bottom in a portrait”

“Quote in original Dutch (citaat van Rembrandt in Nederlands): Dit is naer mijn huijsvrou geconterfeit do si 21 jaer oud was, den derden dach als wij getroudt waeren, den 8 junijus 1633 Rembrandt's inscription under a drawing of his wife Saskia, 1633; as cited in Rembrandt: The Painter at Work , by Ernst van de Wetering , Amsterdam University Press, 1997, p. 47”

“This is portrayed after my wife when she was 21 years old, the third day after we were betrothed, on the 8th of June 1633 [3]”

“Leonard Bernstein discusses material & structure in Bach's St. Matthew Passion,”

“Bach is the immortal God of Harmony. Ludwig van Beethoven”

“Not brook, but ocean should be his name (Bach is the German word for brook.) Ludwig van Beethoven”

“Toccata and Fugue in D minor”

“Annotation in a copy of the Calov Bible , cited from John Butt (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Bach (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), p. 256; translation from ibid. , p. 46”

“Bei einer andächtigen Musik ist allezeit Gott mit seiner Gnaden Gegenwart. Where there is devotional music, God with his grace is always present.”

“Quoted in Ludwig Prautzsch Bibel und Symbol in den Werken Bachs , p. 7 [1] ; translation from Albert Schweitzer (trans. Ernest Newman ) J. S. Bach (New York: Dover, 1966), vol. 1, p. 167”

“Dem höchsten Gott allein zu Ehren, Dem Nächsten draus sich zu belehren. To the glory of the most high God alone, and that my neighbour may be educated thereby.”

“I have had Three Masters”

“Velazquez's remark is to the Italian contemporary painter Salvator Rosa”

“Raphael , to be plain with you, for I prefer to be candid and outspoken, does not please me at all.. ..It is Titian that bears the banner. As quoted by Hugh Stokes in Francisco Goya , Herbert Jenkins Limited Publishers, London, 1914, p 71”

“Painting is a way of seeing the soul.”

“There is no beauty without darkness.”

“The chiaroscuro of life is what gives it meaning.”

“Art must be born from observation, not imagination.”

“I seek the divine in the ordinary.”

“To paint is to capture a moment of truth.”

“Every brushstroke is a prayer.”

“The shadows are as important as the light.”

“I paint what I see, not what others want to see.”

“Good paintings are like good friends — they stay with you forever.”

“Music is the art of the soul and the science of the heart.”

“With Antonio Vivaldi, Italian Baroque music reached its zenith. The prosperous, cultivated world of contemporary Venice shines through all his works, composed with innate craftsmanship. Gramophone (April 28, 2022) [1]”

“Are you interested in the current revival of eighteenth”

“Caricaturists of all countries I have a great interest in; I like to observe what happens to an artist's vision when there is a deliberate distortion for the viewer. This is found in Italian art and in much Italian music. Vivaldi sometimes uses caricature in a very serious and grim sense, not at all comic.”

“Judging Composers: High Notes, and Low”

“Italians have such illustrious people they can celebrate, that everyone celebrates”

“An ironic note written upon an aria score of his opera Orlando Furioso (1727).”

“Quoted in: Michael Talbot (1978) Vivaldi, p. 90”

“Se questa non piace, non voglio più scrivere di musica. Translation: If you don't like this, I'll stop writing music.”