Jon, you are right for quite a number of paintings. With regard to the Holbein, you are wrong. Assuming Sean's (who sent me the picture) consent I have uploaded it to my webspace. Have a look at:
www.jsbach.mynetcologne.de/ambassadorfrets.jpg (900k!) or www.jsbach.mynetcologne.de/ambassadorssmall.jpg (38k) and you'll see what I mean. Best wishes Gernot Am Sonntag, 19.10.03, um 09:55 Uhr (Europe/Berlin) schrieb Jon Murphy: > Just a small point on pictures (paintings) of instruments and players. > On > the whole the painters of the Renaissance weren't exactly > photographers, > they painted what they wanted to paint - and not as an instrutional > manual. > We've all seen the paintings with the instruments in impossible > positions, > why use that art as a detail of the use of the instrument of the > period? > > Best, Jon > >
