{"id":5917,"date":"2009-08-16T04:09:42","date_gmt":"2009-08-16T03:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=5917"},"modified":"2009-08-16T15:34:46","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T14:34:46","slug":"delville-scriabin-and-prometheus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/08\/16\/delville-scriabin-and-prometheus\/","title":{"rendered":"Delville, Scriabin and Prometheus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prelectur.stanford.edu\/lecturers\/taruskin\/excerpts.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/delville1.jpg\" alt=\"delville1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another striking design found by chance. Symbolist artist Jean Delville (1867\u20131953) created this sheet music title page for <em>Prometh\u00e9e<\/em> by Scriabin in 1912, and the pair are well-matched given their shared predilection for mysticism (Theosophy in Delville&#8217;s case). Delville had also dealt with Prometheus in a typically dramatic, if sexless, picture a few years earlier (below). Once again it&#8217;s unfortunate that one of the really great artists of the Symbolist period is so poorly-served by the web that one has to discover his work by accident. There&#8217;s a dedicated site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeandelville.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> but the gallery pages are only harvesting what&#8217;s already scattered around. Delville had a long and consistently high-quality career; he deserves better.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.russianartandbooks.com\/cgi-bin\/russianart\/results.html?searchfield=author&amp;searchspec1=Scriabin\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/delville2.jpg\" alt=\"delville2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeandelville.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/delville3.jpg\" alt=\"delville3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Prometheus (1907).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Dave C reminds us of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeandelville.org\/Paintings\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">another Delville site<\/a> with a better selection of pictures including a photo of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeandelville.org\/Paintings\/pages\/Khnopff0072.htm\" target=\"_blank\">the artist at work<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/09\/07\/the-faces-of-parsifal\/\">The faces of Parsifal<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/07\/07\/masonic-fonts-and-the-designers-dark-materials\/\">Masonic fonts and the designer\u2019s dark materials<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/12\/21\/angels-4-fallen-angels\/\">Angels 4: Fallen angels<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another striking design found by chance. Symbolist artist Jean Delville (1867\u20131953) created this sheet music title page for Prometh\u00e9e by Scriabin in 1912, and the pair are well-matched given their shared predilection for mysticism (Theosophy in Delville&#8217;s case). Delville had also dealt with Prometheus in a typically dramatic, if sexless, picture a few years earlier &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/08\/16\/delville-scriabin-and-prometheus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Delville, Scriabin and Prometheus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,48,3,16,44,45],"tags":[645,644],"class_list":["post-5917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-illustrators","category-music","category-occult","category-painting","category-symbolists","tag-alexander-scriabin","tag-jean-delville"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1xr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}