David Playing the Harp before Saul

1555 Sheet: 33.4 x 47.9 cm (13 1/8 x 18 7/8 in.) Source image
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The soothing effect of David’s music upon the melancholic King Saul, as relayed in the Old Testament and depicted here by Frans Floris, is the earliest visual evidence of the therapeutic use of music. Floris’s woodcut would have had contemporary relevance in its affirmation of...

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