>To add to Caroline's comment: It was a common working practice from the Renaissance through at least the early 20th century for artists to accumulate drawings and watercolor paintings in sketchbooks as they traveled, worked on projects, etc. These sketches would be kept as resource material to be used in composing oil paintings. So that details found in paintings could come from a wide variety of times and original settings. And the same detail could be used in more than one painting. And it all gets interpreted by the artist in different ways depending on what the finished painting will be.
It's not exactly like clip art, but you have to assume that an artist is using such resource material, not that he or she is painting what is in front of them. Tim > > >---- Original Message ---- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu >Subject: Re: Music stands >Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 11:46:57 -0500 > >>At 11:36 AM 2/8/2005 -0500, James A Stimson wrote: >> >>>Dear Martin, Wayne and All, >>> I believe there are some music stands depicted in paintings of the >Baroque >>>era, but I've never seen one in a Renaissance painting -- only >music laying >>>on tables as Wayne described. So when exactly did music stands >enter the >>>picture? Sometime after the development of printed music? And what >was the >>>trend that drove their development? >> >>Let us beware of treating paintings af they were photographs. In >fact, photographs aren't always photographs. Photos of ensembles >often show them without music stands, holding their instruments in >odd ways, etc., but on stage they play from music stands. >>Caroline >>Caroline Usher >>DCMB Administrative Coordinator >>613-8155 >>Box 91000 >> >> >> >>To get on or off this list see list information at >>http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >>
