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Deutsch: Portrait des Kastratensängers Francesco Bernardi, besser bekannt als Senesino

gleichzeitig eine Parodie auf die Kastraten. Das Gedicht unter dem Bild besagt:


Die wohlbekannte Stadt Sienna hat ihn auf die Welt gebracht und ihm seinen Namen gegeben,
der wohlgesonnene Himmel (oder himmlisches Glück) seine Stimme und die Harmonie seinen Ruhm
Während die Großen und Reichen ihm ihren Tribut zollen,
mögen sich die Tauben fragen, worin denn sein Verdienst liegt (was denn so besonders an ihm ist).


Renown'd Siena gave him birth and name
Kind Heaven his Voice and Harmony his Fame
While here the Great and Fair their Tribute bring
The Deaf may wonder where his Merits spring
But all think Fortune just that have him sing

Stich von Elisha Kirkall (ca. 1682-1742) nach einer Vorlage von Joseph Goupy (1689-1769)

Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Inv.-Nr. P.10512-R
English: Portrait of the contralto castrato Francesco Bernardi, better known under his stage name Senesino

at the same time a parody of the castrati and their singing - and the wealth they earned with it. The lines beneath the portrait - in their English translation - read::


Renown'd Siena gave him birth and name
Kind Heaven his Voice and Harmony his Fame
While here the Great and Fair their Tribute bring
The Deaf may wonder where his Merits spring
But all think Fortune just that have him sing

Engraving by Elisha Kirkall (ca. 1682-1742) after an artwork by Joseph Goupy (1689-1769)

preserved at Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Object-Number: P.10512-R
Date circa 1730
date QS:P,+1730-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source http://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/157703
Author Elisha Kirkall (c.1682-1742) after Joseph Goupy (1689-1769)

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