Cristofaro Caresana: Cantata La Tarantella

#baroquemusic #opera #LaTarantella Caresana worked in Naples as a composer organist and singer from 1658 till 1709. His vocal tutors were influential and even reprinted for the Paris conservatoire in 1819. Panting: Arcadia, 1911, by William Irving (British, 1866-1943) and Thomas Eyre Macklin (British, 1867-1943). About the painting: This wonderful painting, of exceptionally large size, depicts a group of women dancing and singing in ’Arcadia,’ the Classical mythological idyll often invoked in poetry and literature as the true pastoral paradise. By a pair of British artists working in the so-called Arts & Crafts movement that flourished in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, it consists of very large canvas, twice as wide as it is tall, set with a small narrow wooden frame of similar dimensions, and is decorated by a large, internal, painted border with Celtic-inspired designs. Arcadia is a beautiful and ancient region of the Peleponnese in