Howard, I don't want to sound pretentious, but, as you may be well aware, yours truly knows a few things about lutes and painting. Therefore you can reasonably trust my opinions as to which artist/painting is "trustworthy" as iconography, and you can reasonably expect greater artists like Cranach and D�rer or smaller like Scorel, Passarotti or Cariani to be reliable as "iconographers", even where they decided is was expedient to sacrifice some precision for stylization's sake. RT ______________ Roman M. Turovsky http://polyhymnion.org/swv
>>> * The right hand doesn't seem to pluck the strings this guy is fingering >>> (he seems to pluck the 2nd and 4th string ) ... > > Roman Turovsky: >> That doesn't mean much. His right hand might have plucked and the left >> lagged. > > We seem to be talking about this picture as if it's a photograph. It's a > painting, for which the subject may have had to pose for a long time, and > would of necessity taken up a comfortable position. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
