Iconography of Piedmontese and European folk music
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Below are some images with scenes of village feasts, peasant feasts, country dances, musicians in popular circles, etc. Iconographic documents can be painted in oils, prints and more. By the artistic choice of the Museum, the images do not follow a defined succession, but are found essentially in the order of loading on the site. We will evaluate in the future, also in relation to the suggestions of visitors, if and how to make classifications for these figures.
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Some of the images refer to originals belonging to private collectors who explicitly, or sometimes anonymously, supported and support the Museum. The Museum intends to protect those who own the rights to the images. For this reason, anyone interested in having a copy must request it (see Download section). Likewise, the Museum undertakes to regularize the use of third-party images on which some form of copyright exists ​​​​​
The image used as a background for the Museum website. It is an oil painting of the school of Teniers (1610-1690) with dancers and bagpipe player. Private collection.
The image used for the Museum logo. The pleasure of music. Period: early nineteenth century. Unknown author. Private collection.
Shepherds dance during the pasture and harvest festival with the sound of the horn, tambourine and flute. Nineteenth century period. Author: Walter Crane (See also the sheet music section - English music).
Festive oleography in the countryside with a young hurdy-gurdy musician and elderly dancers. Period: late nineteenth century. French author: Mureau. Private collection.
Hurdy-gurdy player. XVII-XVIII century. Private collection.
Print of the school of Teniers (1610-1690) with a festival in the village, dancers and hurdy-gurdy player. Private collection.
Color print from the school of Teniers (1610-1690): "Walking musicians" with violin and bagpipe players. Private collection.
Print of the school of Teniers (1610-1690): "Village festival" with bagpipe player and dancers. Private collection.
Another print from the school of Teniers (1610-1690) with bagpipe player and dancers.
Dedicated to the Count of Brissac. Private collection.
Another print from the school of Teniers (1610-1690) with a violin player and group dancers.
Dedicated to the Duke of Cossé. Private collection.
Player of the popular tradition of the city of Modica (Sicily). Built in the mid-twentieth century, but inspired by the period between the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Here represented as a character of the crib. Raw earth statue, painted in tempera and treated with transparent fixative varnish.
Author: Emanuele Modica, painter of Sicilian origin, residing in Turin.
Private collection.
Below, other statues by the same author.
Bagpiper of southern Italy. English painter, Joseph Gilbert (1792-1855).
Print published in Paris in 1869. Private collection.
The music room. Exhibition of 1884 at the Valentino castle, Turin. Private collection.
Country dance in Switzerland in Brienz near the city of Bern. Year 1891.
Milan. Treves edition. Private collection.
The morning. Year 1885, August 9th. Author Francesco Zonaro.
Milan. Treves edition. Private collection.
Interior of a tavern in Hungary. Hungarian painter, Michael von Leib Munkacsy (1844-1900). Year 1891. "L'Illustration, Journal Universel" Paris. Private collection.
The harvest festival. Paris. Year 1862. William Thomas (1830-1900).
private collection.
GUZLA player in a shop in Ragusa (today Dubrovnik in Croatia).
"The Popular Illustration". Milan. Treves Editions. Year 1881.
Private collection.
Baronial hall at Christmas. Year 1845. English painter, Harden Melville. London. "The Gallery of Engravings".editionand Fisher, Son & Co. private collection.
People's party. Early 1600s Dutch painter, Pieter van Jabobaz Laer.
Leipzig - Dresden. Payne Edition. Year 1875. Private collection.
Heavy wedding. David Teniers the younger (1610-1690).
Leipzig - Dresden. Payne Edition. Year 1850. Private collection.
Dance in the tavern. David Teniers the younger 1610-1690).
Leipzig - Dresden. Payne Edition. Year 1850. Private collection.
