Hi Robt. M. Ritger (and lutelist) > I have just been informed by my brother that if you look closely at > the bottom left (?) hand corner of a painting by Hieronymus Bosch ( I am not > sure of which one it is), you can just make out an image of a man hanging from an > obviously out-of-scale lute. I have not seen this yet, but it has also been > confirmed by someone else who was there at the time this was pointed out.
You perhaps mean the Right wing (the Hell) of the triptych The Garden of Earthly Delight? You can see it in http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bosch/delight/delightr.jpg The lute and harp seem to be connected... The page about the whole painting is also interesting: http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bosch/delight/ I just wonder, why musical instruments are in the hell!? Didn't Hieronymus like music? Arto
