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From c.1750 to c.1810 the paths of music history and the history of painting converged with lasting consequences. The publication of Newton's Opticks at the start of the eighteenth century gave a 'scientific' basis to the analogy between sight and sound, allowing music and the visual arts to be defined more closely in relation to one another. This was also a period which witnessed the emergence of a larger and increasingly receptive audience for both music and the visual arts - an audience which potentially included all social strata. The development of this growing public and the commercial...

An account of a cultural development of the 18th century that has hitherto received little critical attention. The work describes the emergence of a kind of meeting of aural and visual perceptions in the public sphere, well-recognized at the time, which though largely running its course by the early-19th century left a substantial legacy to the subsequent development of Western culture. The text is founded upon the seemingly implausible premise that, across much of Europe during the period from 1750 to 1810, the paths of the history of music and of the history of painting crossed, with...

James Fitzjames Stephen was a distinguished jurist, a codifier of the law in England and India, and the judge in the ill-fated Maybrick case; a serious and prolific journalist, a pillar of the Saturday Review and the Pall Mall Gazette; and in Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873) the hard-hitting assailant of John Stuart Mill. Fitzjames's younger brother Leslie was founding editor of the Dictionary of National Biography and father of Virginia Woolf. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, by his brother Leslie Stephen (1895) is the biography of one...