I tried this link and it didn't work. My request to Mr. Blumberg was retuned with a questionairrefrom his spam blocker. I also tried it with <dot>jpg. Still didn't work. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger E. Blumberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "LUTE-LIST" <[email protected]>; "Roger E. Blumberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 11:54 PM Subject: one more cool picture
> This one seems too rare to let it slip between the cracks. > > This is colonial Chile, South America, 1660-70, with plucked guitar, bowed > guitar, and lute (sopranno? or maybe mandolino?) in one picture. > Franciscan order Convent, Santiago Chile. AlegorÃa, painted by Taller de > Basilio de Santa Cruz. > > http://www.thecipher.com/viol_guitar_lute_Chile_1670-80_Franciscan-convent.j > pg [catch any trailing characters in the url please] > > This small viol truly looks "colonial" i.e. antique, as if it came off the > boat 120 years earlier. Something about this picture seems to capture or > retain the true essence of the original thing -- paired as it is with this > guitar, same relative sizes, same playing postures, side-by-side, mates, > etc. > > There was one other picture with a similar vibe, if you didn't catch it > earlier. This one is 1604, three guitars: one plucked, two bowed. Fresco, > by > Vasco Pereira Lusitano, Coronation of the Virgin, Sao Miguel island, > Azores, > Portugal [Originally from the Church of the Jesuit college of Ponta > Delgada]. > http://www.thecipher.com/braccio_3guitars_VascoPereiraLusitano_1604_Coronati > onVirgin_V2det.jpg > [again, catch any trailing characters in the url please] > > > thanks > Roger > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
