Mourning Into Joy: Music, Raphael, and Saint Cecilia

by Thomas Connolly

Although Saint Cecilia is venerated throughout the Western world as the patron saint of music and Raphael's famous painting The Ecstasy of Saint Cecilia is filled with musical iconography, the ancient origins of Cecilia's association with music have long been shrouded in mystery. This book, a masterful investigation of the Cecilian cult from its beginnings in Christian antiquity down to the Renaissance, explains how Cecilia came to be linked with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300059019
• ISBN13: 9780300059014
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"