Hi Roger, i just got home now late and will read your messages tomorrow--sorry
for the delay.
Now i only red the last one and will reply quickly to it:
No doubt it will be a leaning bridge, or badly drawn (perspectivewise) bridge,
the way it is on the picture. However, i don't know what the reputation of
this artist Viti is but i can do better than him even while sleeping (am
joking, not being rude-hehe). Notice that his perspective of the pegbox of the
instument is completely twisted already: the pegbox is twisted and it looks as
if it should belong to another viola that is seen much more from the right side
view. I like the drawing though, doesn't matter the "faults" :))
> Hi Rosinfiorini;
>
> let me just clearify that the problem with the bridge in general, and the
> way you've connected those dots, is that this artist _knows_ how to draw
> good perspective. If you look at the right side edge of the viol's face, as
> it drops down the side of instrument, all the well exicuted perspective and
> geometry of those boxy edges and sides of the middle waist bout, you can see
> how true this is. Now if you go back the the bridge, if it were all one
> connected piece, it's perspective (in relation to all other prespective on
> the viol) would be way off -- the work of a talented 5 year old perhaps, but
> not Viti. That rendering would not pass muster, would never get out the door
> (or on the wall) with Viti's name and reputation attached to it, I believe.
> So, if for no other reason, that's why I'm not ready to accept that we're
> looking at one connected piece of bridgework.
>
> In your minds eye, imagine standing a boxed deck of cards or cigarette pack
> upright on it's long narrow edge on top of the face of that instrument,
> perpendicular to the face of the viola.
> http://www.thecipher.com/viol_TimoteoViti_c1500Madonna-italy.jpg
> can you see the kind of perspective it would create, and the kind of
> perspective Viti would have seen? He sees the correct perspective just 2 or
> 3 inches away at the right side of the instrument, so why can't he see it
> for the bridge?
>
> Thanks
> Roger
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