I think the drawing is what it is on the face of it, I don't think Durer deliberately distorted it. It has been interpreted also from a double perspective. Whether the lute is too fat or not can be interpreted in a variety of ways. One common variable is the angle of the viewer.
As to who is the "artist" of the two figures, there is no way to know, but they could both be Durer painted at different stages of life. The one on the left looks like the young Durer, on the right the fanous Melancholia. dt At 02:52 AM 12/16/2009, you wrote: >we had it before, but there is a quite interesting article > >http://virtualterritory.wordpress.com/2007/05/31/did-albrecht-duerer-got-it-wrong-a-surprise-discovery-in-one-of-his-prints/ > > >B. > > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
