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Thread #70749   Message #1208765
Posted By: JohnInKansas
16-Jun-04 - 02:36 PM
Thread Name: Theorbo's (Big Lute type thing) anyone?
Subject: RE: Theorbo's (Big Lute type thing) anyone?
The classic illustration dates to:

GRAMATICA, Antiveduto
Italian painter, Roman school (b. ca. 1571, Roma, d. 1626, Roma)

The Theorbo Player
c. 1615
Oil on canvas, 119 x 85 cm
Galleria Sabauda, Turin

A click on the thumbnail should get you a 98 KB .jpg enlargement, good enough to make very nice 8x10 (or larger) prints. The painting also shows a "period" smaller lute, about tenor uke size, and a tambourine of the era.

John