That's my very same thought, and one possibility might be a painter's school, as he used to paint the main subject and leave the painting to be finished by his pupils , skilled sometimes and sometimes not so talented.... Leonardo is said to have painted an angel in a Verrocchio's painting, his master at the time, and Verrocchio was jeaolous about the result, as everybody praised Leonardo's angel. Anyway, I can't understand why a master would have risked his reputation with such a mistake in the lute neck.
Donatella http://web.tiscali.it/awebd ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Durbrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David Van Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 4:38 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: french baroque lute painting > I'd really like to hear what an art critic would say. It seems > amazing to me that someone who could paint faces and other detail so > well could utterly screw up a lute. > > I notice the fellow is playing off of the right side of his fingers too. > > > On Nov 6, 2005, at 2:43 AM, David Van Edwards wrote: > >> >> The picture is an anonymous French School painting in Hamburg >> Kunsthalle and was featured on the front cover of Early Music >> magazine in October 1982. The whole picture makes it clear that it's >> mostly a perspective problem, since the bridge also is on at an >> impossible [and opposite] angle. >> >> The rose is set grossly to one side as well. But the whole painting >> is magnificent and gives very much the spirit of the instrument, >> which looks like a converted Italian yew-wood lute with a French >> style silver lace round the edge. >> >> It may well be that the player did have his frets on at various >> angles as many players do today to adjust intonation. >> >> What is noticeable from the whole painting is that the player has his >> little finger resting BEHIND the bridge in a postion where lots of >> surviving museum instruments have wear marks. Thus he is playing very >> close to the bridge. This may have influenced Bob's choice of >> picture, since he has been talking a lot of late about the evidence >> of playing close to the bridge. But from the CD section one can't >> tell this of course! >> >> The red strings are interesting and are not that illogical since they >> are on the bass side of each course from the fifth downwards. A >> perfect example of loaded strings and very bright red. >> >> In case anyone is interested in seeing the whole painting I'll put it >> up on my site at http://www.vanedwards.co.uk/hamburg.htm > > Ed Durbrow > Saitama, Japan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ > > > > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
