writing - sometimes invisible
here was great music made and silenced
Academic and musical life flourished in the Pieta, so much so that it directed the ebb and flow of all creativity in Venice. If the Pieta were a midwife-priestess of sorts, the inhabitants, all females, were its Vestal Virgins. But this was not Rome in the height of her glory. No, this was La Serenissima, the Republic of Venice, the Byzantine jewel of the Roman Catholic world. This was the world of high Baroque life and art and politics, the world of a peculiar Maryolatry and great variances in morality. Religion and politics, having travelled together along convoluted pathways from Rome and Constantinople, had found their home in the city. And Antonio Vivaldi had been born at precisely the right time for his destiny to be in alignment with his city’s. The earthquake on the day of his birth had been no coincidence. [from Antonia of Venice by Ellyn Peirson}
Antonio Vivaldi's Church in the heart of Venice
my textures
here was great music made and silenced
Academic and musical life flourished in the Pieta, so much so that it directed the ebb and flow of all creativity in Venice. If the Pieta were a midwife-priestess of sorts, the inhabitants, all females, were its Vestal Virgins. But this was not Rome in the height of her glory. No, this was La Serenissima, the Republic of Venice, the Byzantine jewel of the Roman Catholic world. This was the world of high Baroque life and art and politics, the world of a peculiar Maryolatry and great variances in morality. Religion and politics, having travelled together along convoluted pathways from Rome and Constantinople, had found their home in the city. And Antonio Vivaldi had been born at precisely the right time for his destiny to be in alignment with his city’s. The earthquake on the day of his birth had been no coincidence. [from Antonia of Venice by Ellyn Peirson}
Antonio Vivaldi's Church in the heart of Venice
my textures