Description
This paper presents a survey of images (lithographs) related to music that were published in the issues of the Brazilian illustrated periodical Revista Illustrada. Based in Rio de Janeiro, this periodical had a notable activity, existing for over two decades and having a record breaking circulation in Latin America. Its first phase ranges from its founding in 1874 by the Italian-Brazilian Ângelo Agostini (Vercelli, 8/4/1843 - Rio de Janeiro, 28/4/1910), who was also its main illustrator during this period, until 1889. Ângelo Agostini became famous as a graphic artist during the Second Reign of the Empire of Brazil, and his production at the head of Revista Illustrada, encompassing a point of maturity of his style, mainly in the genres of cartoons and portraits. The outcomes presented here are the result of a detailed survey that aimed to identify all occurrences of images related to the theme of music, facing the challenges of systematizing data related to a set that is surprising in quantitative terms and expands, on the one hand, the approach to the relationship between music and periodicals, focusing specifically on iconographic elements, and, on the other, the approach to musical iconography itself, prioritizing a portion that lacks studies in the area. The Volpe methodology, applied in the systematization of data, has demonstrated its efficiency in previous works, dedicated to this and other textual typologies of musical journalism, and allows us to advance in the tabulation of results by analytical categories, in order to direct the following stages, which encourage interdisciplinary efforts to approach interpretative questions in this relevant iconographic-musical production. This work is part of a larger project that aims to cover the second stage of the same periodical, as well as extend its action to other similar periodicals.
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