Mozart's Portrait on a French Box of Sweets

Stefaan Missinne was born into a Belgian musical family. He lives in Lower Austria near Vienna and received his PhD from the Economics University in Social and Economic Sciences in Vienna in 1990. He is the author of several academic art historically essays and articles. Recent publication: "The Da Vinci Globe" (2018)

Introduction

Description of the portrait and the box

Miniature portraits of Mozart

Mozart and his stays in Paris

Primary sources on boxes in Mozart's letters

Mozart, musical instruments and notes
in miniatures and paintings

Iconographic decoration of the silver mounting
and on the outside pattern of the round box

Interlaced orphic ornaments from classical antiquity
and their appearance in late XVIII century artifacts
and frontispieces of printed music editions of
Haydn and Mozart

Allegory of music on a mechanical golden
wedding box dating from 1768

Post-mortem iconographic elements including the
reference to Mozart as the death of Orpheus

Some thoughts with regard to a potential attribution
of the artist who painted the portrait

Paediatric osteological approach

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

References

Index

List of Pictures