Interesting picture indeed David ! Thank you for sharing. Is it the fact that the young lady plays left-handed that fosters Martyn's ironical approavh to this nice painting ???
I hope not ! ;-) Best wishes to all, Jean-Marie Envoye depuis mon appareil Samsung -------- Message d'origine -------- De : Martyn Hodgson <[email protected]> Date : 24/11/2015 12:14 (GMT+01:00) A : David Van Edwards <[email protected]>, [email protected] Objet : [LUTE] Re: Another lute picture? Very interesting David. It may be simply a fashionable couple wanting to be portrayed performing but in fact unable to play a note! Perhaps the painter who, as you point out, might be thought to have known better was laughing up his sleeve... Or perhaps, and maybe more likely (the painter might not have wished to be later seen to make fools of his rich clients), they had insisted on this sort of pose (it certainly looks very stylised especially with the young lady's eyes turned to heaven etc) and their insistence overcame any scruples the painter may have expressed about depicting them actually playing. In short, the very act of posing for the picture was the statement rather than the playing of music. regards Martyn __________________________________________________________________ From: David Van Edwards <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, 24 November 2015, 10:50 Subject: [LUTE] Another lute picture? Dear All, My Lute of the Month series has dwindled to lute of the Year these days! It's because I've mainly been writng them for the Lute Society's newsletter, Lute News, now it has a nice full colour cover. But here is the latest, as it were more public, example up on the web at [1]http://www.vanedwards.co.uk/month/Nov%2015/month.htm I hope you find it fun! As usual please email me any corrections or comments Best wishes, David -- The Smokehouse, 6 Whitwell Road, Norwich, NR1 4HB England. Telephone: + 44 (0)1603 629899 Website: [2]http://www.vanedwards.co.uk -- To get on or off this list see list information at [3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://www.vanedwards.co.uk/month/Nov%2015/month.htm 2. http://www.vanedwards.co.uk/ 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
