One of the paintings I remembered:
The famous picture of 3 women musicians by the Master of the Half- Lengths: http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/m/master/female/ (First picture on the page) shows an open case hanging on the wall behind the women. ....Bob To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html