Reportedly he and his companion traveled over the Alps to Innsbruck
during a blizzard. He was with Philippe Camerarius, an associate of
Martin Luther who had recently been freed from being imprisoned by the
Roman Inquisition. They traveled through Siena where they stayed at
the
That is a lazy excuse :)
Please go on about the brushwork.
On 11.11.19 15:28, r.turov...@gmail.com wrote:
It would be too complicated for a layman.
You have to simmer in paint for years to understand how style works. In a
nutshell - brushwork tells all.
RT
http://turovsky.org
Feci quod
It's also well possible that he met with highway men!
:)
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Betreff: [LUTE] Re: Melchior Newsidler's portrait, again
Datum: 2019-11-11T13:03:31+0100
Von: "David Van Edwards"
An: "Joachim Lüdtke"
But it would have to have been
I have a 50 year experience in visual arts, so...
Stylistically is absolutely post-1600.
It is also worth looking at such material culture elements as clothing,
same anachronism.
RT
On 11/10/2019 11:50 PM, Tristan von Neumann wrote:
You just repeated yourself...
You cannot say "is from the
But it would have to have been on the way back! Was that in Winter too?
;)
David
At 12:48 +0100 11/11/19, Joachim Lüdtke wrote:
Well, in winter 1565, while his lute books were set and printed in
Venice, Melchior together with some fellow Germans went over the
Alps,
Well, in winter 1565, while his lute books were set and printed in Venice,
Melchior together with some fellow Germans went over the Alps, in deep snow and
at freezing temperature. Some piece of hard-frozen snow or ice may have hit him
during the passage … ;)
Joachim
dler's portrait, again
So it is on Arthur, who brought this up, to deliver some insight about
his sources or reasoning.
Arthur? :)
The painting seems to show a composer though. Who could it be?
The scroll doesn't reveal much...
:)
T*
On 11.11.19 12:01, David Van Edwards wrote:
Even the museum don't say it is
Even the museum don't say it is German, the artists suggested are Italian
http://samling.nasjonalmuseet.no/en/object/NG.M.01341#
But Melchior did visit Italy in 1565, 9 years
before his undoubted portrait by Stimmer. And the
resemblance is possible but slight. The main
difference is the top
Please Joachim :)
There is nothing to be learned if just those broad statements are uttered.
What makes you think that it is not a contemporary portrait?
On 11.11.19 11:23, Joachim Lüdtke wrote:
Well, he can. You can say; the traffic light is green, not red. And: it is not
a contemporary
