At 09:05 AM 11/12/2006, you wrote: >Doc Rossi wrote: > > One more and I'll stop: > > > > http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/steen/p-steen8.htm > > > >Anyway, the boy(?) citternist seems to have the role of the detached >onlooker. His hands and the cittern look remarkably delicate - unlike >his surroundings. He doesn't appear to be hammering out chords. > >I wonder what the cittern is meant to represent? >
I had come across this image before. I forget on which site I had seen it, but the notes to it stated that the picture is full of sexual overtones -- the cittern meant to evoke the image of male genitalia(!). -A: To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
