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How did a large collection of Chinese porcelain end up in a court in Northern Italy in the late fifteenth century? That was the question that started my book project off. It brought me to various places around the globe, following the potential trajectories of the Chinese porcelain that was recorded in a 1493 inventory […]
Read MoreMichelangelo began complaining about his age in the 1520s, when he would have been in his late 40s and early 50s. For example, in October, 1525, the artist declared, “I’ll always go on working for Pope Clement with such powers as I have, which are slight, as I’m an old man.” Although he was already […]
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One of the most pleasant tasks facing the author of a published book is choosing an appropriate image for the cover. For a biography of one person the choice is obvious, an image of the subject. In my case it was more difficult since the book deals with four people, Johann Strauss the father and […]
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What would an introductory guide to medieval music look like if it were based around the humans involved in music-making? It’s perhaps not surprising that medieval music history has often been written around genres – musical objects – rather than people, because so many of medieval music’s personalities are simply unknown. In writing Medieval Polyphony […]
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The HBO series Game of Thrones is perhaps the most recent expression of the general view that the Middle Ages were rape-prone. Humiliation and exploitation of female (and male) characters repeatedly come together with direct sexual violence, which is only partially reframed through a series of revenge-sequences in the last season. The cinematic quality of […]
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‘Schubert didn’t write many quartets, did he?’ was a question I faced with surprising regularity through the writing of this book. Beyond such Schubertian staples as the ‘Death and the Maiden’, ‘Rosamunde’ and G-major quartets, and the String Quintet in C, my interlocutors were often of the shared opinion that Schubert wrote little else in […]
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“What is there new to say about nineteenth-century Haydn and Mozart reception?” a musically-inclined friend asked me, with a glint in his eye, when I mentioned my book a few years ago. I started my project with two hunches: that near-universal assumptions about Haydn’s nineteenth-century reputational “fall” are based on an overly narrow consideration of […]
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Nandini Pandey (author of The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, 2018) stepped out with Jennifer Stager (Seeing Color in Classical Art, 2022) for a walk around the Johns Hopkins University campus in Baltimore, MD and a conversation about Stager’s new book. NP: Tell me about your book. What are some of the big questions […]
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