David Kilpatrick wrote:
http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/steen/p-steen8.htm > The company on a terrace is a fantastic portrayal of the imagined state > of the drunken reveller - the handsome, young, slim, cittern-player who > is the centre of attention - with the shambolic crudity of reality, a > load of fat and half-arsed folk knocking things over, offering wine to > baby, ignoring the dog, painting the ceiling, etc. The entire figure of > the citternisto represents something. Not sure what. > > Surely the girl is the centre of attention. She occupies the central position. The light shines on her. Her chrome top contrasts dramatically with all the orange around her. She's doing the wrist presentation thing with one arm and lifting her apron with the other. Is she a desperate wanton or a disappointed one? Anyway, cittern-boy, with his little cittern, which he's only managing to play in first position, doesn't look like he'd be of much use to her. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
