La représentation de la musique et de la danse dans les œuvres de Post et Wagner : une archéologie des musiques noires au Brésil

The relatively brief period of Dutch colonization in Pernambuco (1630-1654) corresponds to an exceptional documentary undertaking driven by Jean-Maurice de Nassau. Frans Janzsoon Post, responsible for the painting of landscapes, villages and their inhabitants, often represented Black drummers accompanied by a few dancers. Here, we attempt to define a recurrent motif in the corpus of these works, belonging to the Dutch Golden Age. A gouache from the adventurer Zacharias Wagner completes the collection. By comparing art history analysis concerning the place of music in contemporary Dutch paintin... Mehr ...