1. The Power of Music & The Madness of Art 2014 Deborah Feller 2. Detail, mile Wauters, Le Peintre du Rouge-Clotre (1872, oil on canvas, 6 x 9 ft [1.86 x 2.75 c]). Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels. 3. mile Wauters, Le Peintre du Rouge-Clotre (1872, oil on canvas, 6 x 9 ft [1.86 x 2.75 m]). Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels. 4. Irene Carr, Flashdance-What a Feeling 5. mile Wauters, Le Peintre du Rouge-Clotre (1872, oil on canvas, 6 x 9 ft [1.86 x 2.75 m]). Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels. 6. Melancholy Healed by Music in Aldobrandino of Siena, Livres pour la sant garder (Rgime du corps) (late 13th century). The British Library, London. Sloane MS 7. Detail, mile Wauters, Le Peintre du Rouge-Clotre (1872, oil on canvas, 6 x 9 ft [1.86 x 2.75 m]). Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels. 8. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, David with the Head of Goliath (1609-10, oil on canvas, 49 x 39 in [125 x 101 cm]). Rome, Museo e Galleria Borghese. 9. Michelangelo Buonarroti, restored and completed by Tiberio Calcagni, Bandini Piet (1550-55, marble, height 7 ft [2.26 m]). Museo dellOpera del Duomo, Florence, Italy. Photo Marie-Lan Nguyen. 10. Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear (1889, oil on canvas, 23 x 19 in [60 x 49 cm]). The Courtauld Gallery, London. 11. Adam Elsheimer, Minerva as Patroness of Arts and Sciences (c. 1600-1605, oil on copper, 3 x 5 in [8.6 x 14.6 cm]). The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK. 12. Hugo van der Goes, The Portinari Altarpiece (1475, oil on wood, 8 4 ft [2.53 1.41 m]). Uffizi Gallery, Florence. 13. Queen Mary Psalter, early 14th century. British Royal Library. Bible of Duke Borso dEste, mid-15th century. Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, Modena. 14. Flute Made of Mammoth Ivory, Ulm, Germany (c. 30,000-37,000 BP, 7 in [18.7 cm] in length). Photo: H. Jensen, University of Tbingen. Whistles Made of Reindeer Bones, Petersfels, Germany (c. 15,000 BP). Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany. Photo Don Hitchcock. 15. Oinochoe with the Myth of Orpheus (ceramics, red figure). Tuscania, Italy: Museo Archeologica. 2006, SCALA, Florence / Art Resource, NY. 16. Raphael, School of Athens (c. 1510-12, fresco, 19 x 27 ft [5.8 x 8.23 m]). Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican Palace, Vatican State. Erich Lessing / Art Resource, N.Y. Detail of Pythagoras. 17. Pier Francesco Mola, Mercury Putting Argus to Sleep (c. 1645-55, oil on canvas, 23 x 39 in [58.7 x 99.4 cm]). Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH. 18. Boethius, De Institutione Musica (early 6th century CE). 19. Gonzales Coques, The Artist in His Studio (1650, oil on canvas, 25 x 32 in [65 x 82 cm]). Staatliches Museum, Schwerin, Germany. 20. Frans van Mieris the Elder, The Artist in His Studio (1659, oil on panel, 23 x 18 in [60 x 47 cm]). Staatliche Kunstammlungen, Gemldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, Germany. 21. Unknown (formerly attributed to Paul Bril), Self-Portrait of an Artist (c. 1595-1600, oil on canvas, 28 x 30 in [71 x 78 cm]). Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island. 22. Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, The Old Song (1959, oil on canvas, 3 x 5 ft [1.02 x 1.53 m]). Courtesy Galerie St. Etienne, NY. The Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Trust. 23. Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Saul and David (1655-60, oil on canvas, 4 x 5 ft [1.3 x 1.64 m]). Mauritshaus, The Hague, Netherlands. 24. From Daniel J. Levitin, This is Your Brain on Music, 2006. 25. Jan Steen, The Doctors Visit (c. 1660- 65, oil on panel, 18 x 14 in [46 x 36.8 cm]). Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA. 26. Copy after Jan Steen, Lady at a Clavichord (after 1661 or 1664, oil on canvas, 25 x 21 in [64.1 x 55.2 cm]). Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA. 27. Hugo van der Goes, Portrait of a Man (c. 1475, oil on wood, 12 x 10 in [31.8 x 26 cm]). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. Hugo van der Goes, A Benedictine Monk (c. 1478, oil on wood, 9 x 7 in [25.1 x 18.7 cm]). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. 28. Hugo van der Goes Death of a Virgin (147080, oil on panel, 4 4 ft [1.23 1.48 m]). Groeningemuseum. Bruges, Belgium. Hugo van der Goes Trinity Altarpiece (c. 1478-79, oil on panel, each panel: 6 x 3 ft [2.02 x 1.01 m]). National Galleries Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland.