May I enlarge that smallest answer a bit... What an art critic has to say is uninteresting; it's better to ask a painter educated in the Old School: he/she would know what to answer. Saludos, Manolo Laguillo
Roman Turovsky wrote: >No, you wouldn't. >RT > > > >>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 >> >> >> > > > > > --
