Art, Symbol & Imagination
Music of Mendelssohn
A scalloped outline encloses coloured lines and small floating crescents above a church. Plate M, Music of Mendelssohn, translates a melody from Songs without Words into the authors’ claimed vision of sound. The church provides a scale shared with the Gounod and Wagner plates; the individual painter is not identified.
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"Music of Mendelssohn" [editorial title]. In Thought-Forms, Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater. 1905, Theosophical Publishing Society. Source scan leaf 60. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/art-thought-music-one
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Music of Mendelssohn. Thought-Forms. Scan leaf 60. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/art-thought-music-one