Trombone
Quadratura is a type of illusionistic painting that interacts with a building’s architecture, often extending or altering the actual appearance of the architecture. Popular with Baroque artists, it is similar to other illusionistic techniques such as trompe-l’œil, although it tends to refer more to the “opening up” of architectural space and to a more thorough [...]
I was browsing through the latest issue of the Historic Brass Society Journal yesterday and was happy to come across the below reference in “Correspondence” by Stanford professor Herbert W. Myers. The context of the citation was a discussion of trombone iconography (the way the instrument has been depicted visually in art work, etc.). Here’s the [...]
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