Madrigal
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A madrigal is a form of secular vocal music most typical of the Renaissance and early Baroque periods, although revisited by some later European composers. The polyphonic madrigal is unaccompanied, an
The Lute Player (c. 1600) by Caravaggio. The lutenist reads madrigal music by the composer Jacques Arcadelt. (Hermitage, Saint Petersburg)
As a writer, Cardinal Pietro Bembo advocated using vernacular Italian (Tuscan dialect) for poetry and literature, which facilitated composers' creating lyrical styles for the madrigal musical form in 16th-century Italy. (Titian)
In the last twenty years of the 16th century, the madrigalist Luca Marenzio (1553–1599) was an influential composer until Monteverdi's Baroque-era transformation of the madrigal as a musical form.
The commemorative statue of the singer and publisher Nicholas Yonge (1560–1619), who introduced madrigals to England.
Carlo Gesualdo
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Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa was an Italian nobleman and composer. Though both the Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, he is better known for writing madrigals and pieces of sacred music that use a chrom
Madrigal
…Camillo Cortellini – I Libro a 5 e 6, 1583 Carlo Gesualdo – I Libro, 1594 Sigismondo d'India – I Libro a 5, 1606…
1609 donor portrait of Gesualdo from Il Perdono di Gesualdo
Castle of Gesualdo