Fresco is water based, so there were no fumes.
RT
>> vihuela's/viola's back, but the profile of the soundboard strikes me as
>> rather
>> "Chambure"-like. Other than gross morphology, I wouldn't put too much
>> stock
>> in the painter's understanding of the practical functioning of musical
>> instruments. Note the reverse fret spacing!
>>
>> Eugene
>
>
> I guess he was breathing-in too many paint fumes that day ;-)
>
> Color images somehow give the icons greater reality and believability,
> i.e.
> that they really do exist after all. Color seem to help elevate any given
> image closer to the top of the deck -- making it a major player and
> contender, giving it big-gun status, more weight or something, a deeper
> level of "documentation".
>
> It does have a Chambure-like profile -- the one moderns seem to prefer.
>
> Roger
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