Turning back to the earlier discussion on this subject, there is a fairly good quality illustration of the Timoteo Viti's viol painting in the following article (scroll down to the bottom of page 8):
http://articles.instrumentsmedievaux.org/raultmodif.pdf .. which, in a way, puts to rest some speculations that were proposed earlier about the depicted viol's bridge possible ways of construction (i. e. "two-bridge" plucked / bowed idea, as well one of the bridge's "extended foot" going through the cut-out in the soundboard and resting on the back). In fact, there is just one single bowed bridge! Painter's tricks with the perspective distortions are to blame, I suppose .. --- Alexander Batov To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
