wi...@yahoo.com writes:
David,
--- On Fri, 5/8/09, David van Ooijen
wrote:
From: David van Ooijen
Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: Dutch theorbo painting online
To: baroque-l...@cs.dartmouth.edu
Date: Friday, May 8, 2009, 5:39 PM
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 11:08 PM,
wrote:
And upside down, at t
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 ha
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To: Anthony Hind
Cc: lute List
Sent: Friday, May 8, 2009 4:31:21 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Dutch theorbo painting online
Broken strings was a typical way for the artist to show 'discord'
between the subjects. The Amabassadors is another example.
Rob
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Le 8 mai 09 à 16:31, Rob MacKillop a écrit :
Broken strings was a typical way for the artist to show 'discord'
between the subjects. The Amabassadors is another example.
I thought that broken strings symbilized the danger of general
dischord, rather than dischord between the two subjec
Dear Rob, dear all,
sometimes a broken string hinted at the vanity of all things, too (the
portrait of Ochsenkhun in his tablature book comes to my mind). And
doesn't the women hold the instrument the wrong way round, so that she
must reach around the bass strings? Strange couple, indeed!
All bes
Broken strings was a typical way for the artist to show 'discord'
between the subjects. The Amabassadors is another example.
Rob
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If you zoom in on the gamba, the top string is broken on that too.
They must both be playing "props", but it is strange to underline that.
Anthony
Le 8 mai 09 à 15:15, Martin Eastwell a écrit :
If you zoom in, it seems that the lute has one or more carefully
painted
broken strings. She's not
On May 8, 2009, at 9:55 PM, David van Ooijen wrote:
>> Sotheby's New York will be auctioning a Dutch painting of a
>> theorbo & gamba
>>
>>
>> (the woman doesn't appear to know how to hold a theorbo
Judging from the broken strings she must be playing it with a razor
blade.
Ed Durbrow
Saitama,
