Stefaan Missinne

Mozart's Portrait on a French Box of Sweets (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

A rare box with a silver mounted miniature painting of a child with a cherubic face, wearing a wig and a red coat of nobility was discovered in Salzburg in 2018. It is a French bonbonniere made of papier-mâché and tortoiseshell. Could this be a portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from when he first performed for King Louis XV in Paris? The detective trail leads the author, who consulted with numerous experts, to Salzburg, Munich, Vienna and Paris. Laboratory testing confirms the authenticity of the lacquered baroque box of sweets, and the miniature upon it. Stefaan Missinne has discovered the linking orphic attribute in its silver mounting. The facial biometrics confirm it is a ten-year-old. Mozart was ten in 1766. The author endorses the box to be a unique Louis XV box of sweets, suggesting tribute to W. A. Mozart as an Austrian child prodigy. The portrait affirms the affective and visual bond between Mozart's immortal musical skills and an anonymous, admiring French lady.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783990129357
• Artikelnr.: 62159596

Autorenporträt

Stefaan Missinne was born into a Belgian musical family. He writes and lives in Lower Austria near Vienna. He received his PhD from the Viennese Economics University in Social and Economic Sciences in 1990. He is a Laureate of the Belgian Prince Albert Foundation, member of the American Mozart Society, the Leonardo da Vinci Society, and the Austrian Society for the History of Science. He was a member of the Jury of the international Nico Dostal-Singing-Competition. He is a globe collector and the author of several academic articles.

Inhaltsangabe

IntroductionDescription of the portrait and the boxMiniature portraits of MozartMozart and his stays in ParisPrimary sources on boxes in Mozart's lettersMozart, musical instruments and notesin miniatures and paintingsIconographic decoration of the silver mountingand on the outside pattern of the round boxInterlaced orphic ornaments from classical antiquityand their appearance in late XVIII century artifactsand frontispieces of printed music editions ofHaydn and MozartAllegory of music on a mechanical goldenwedding box dating from 1768Post-mortem iconographic elements including thereference to Mozart as the death of OrpheusSome thoughts with regard to a potential attributionof the artist who painted the portraitPaediatric osteological approachConclusionAcknowledgementsReferencesIndexList of Pictures