A book review is presented for Saint Cecilia in the Renaissance: The Emergence of a Musical Icon, authored by John A. Rice, by Laura Stefanescu.
Author Biography
Laura Stefanescu is an art historian specializing in Italian Renaissance art and particularly fifteenth-century Florence, interested in the interplay between art, theater, music, and religious experience. She has received her PhD from the University of Sheffield (2020), where she has subsequently worked as Research Associate on Prof. Tim Shephard’s project Sounding the Bookshelf 1501: Music in a Year of Italian Printed Books, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Her publications include the co-authored article “Music, Silence, and the Senses in a Late Fifteenth-Century Book of Hours,” in Renaissance Studies (2017) and the co-authored book Music in the Art of Renaissance Italy c. 1420-1540 (Harvey Miller, 2020).
Stefanescu, Laura
(2023)
"Saint Cecilia in the Renaissance: The Emergence of a Musical Icon,"
Yale Journal of Music & Religion:
Vol. 9:
No.
2, Article 9.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17132/2377-231X.1309
