The Rosary Sonatas by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
Wikipedia Entry – YouTube Playlist – Original Manuscript/ BSB Mus.ms. 4123
with a print to preface each mystery’s sonata, here the first, for the Annunciation
15 Mysteries in Sint Paulus in Antwerp and Caravaggio’s Madonna of the Rosary
which they were commissioned from 11 different painters to accompany
here below Caravaggio’s Madonna (which was stolen from this church by Emperor Joseph II of Austria in 1786)
Church Website / Wikipedia Entry on Sint Paulus / Wikipedia Entry on Caravaggio’s Madonna / Google Arts and Culture on Caravaggio’s Madonna
Nihil sub sole novum 