Check the web for Hans Holbein's The Ambassadors. There is much information about the symbols in the painting, among which is a lute with a broken string (disharmony). A rather different time than the Dutch theorbo, of course.
On May 9, 2009, at 5:06 AM, theoj89...@aol.com wrote: > Does anyone have an idea why the painter would go to the trouble of > painting a lute with broken strings - what meaning would that convey? Ed Durbrow Saitama, Japan edurb...@sea.plala.or.jp http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
