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Music has not only been an indispensable component in the life of mankind but, in man's collective history, also has often been the prelude to exchange of material commodity and intellectual erudition between peoples of different cultural orientations. In music culture the most eloquent testimonial to the wisdom of mankind is found in the historical progression of devices for tuning and tempering of musical tones, culminiating in the discovery and eventual universal adoption of equal temperament in the practice of music. ... Read more

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Articles: "The Shapes of the Book of Durrow Evangelist-Symbol Pages" by Robert D. Stevick; "Saint Dominic's Manners of Praying: Gestures in Fra Angelico's Frescoes at S. Marco" by William Hood; "Ekphrasis and Imagination: Some Observations on Pietro Aretino's Art Criticism" by Norman Land; "Caravaggio and the Decorative Arts in the Two Suppers at Emmaus" by John Varriano; "'Un fior vano e fragile': The Symbolism of Poussin's Realm of Flora" by Troy Thomas; "Simon Stevin and Pieter Saenredam: A Study of Mathematics and Vision in Dutch Science and Art" by Martin Kemp; "'Judicious Negligence': Rembrandt Transforms and Emblematic Convention" by Stephanie S. Dickey; "Vermeer's Astronomer: Observations on an Open Book" by James Welu; "Imago Belli: Horace Vernet's L'atelier as an Image of Radical Militarism under the Restoration" by Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer; "'Each Little Hillock Hath a Tongue': Phrenology and the Art of Hiram Powers" by Charles Colbert; and "Van Gogh's Agony" by Lauren Soth. Notes: "Nero, Seneca, and the Medallist of the Roman Emperors" by John Cunnally; "Addenda to 'Sixteenth-Century European Tapestries in Tokugawa Japan'" by Grace Vlam; "An Unpublished Description of the Villa Doria in Genoa during Charles V's Entry, 1533" by George L. Gorse; and "A Note on Michelangelo and the S. Lorenzo Facade" by Michael Hirst. ... Read more