Like the shawm and blue drum, the man on the ladder, the hands, the chopped of foot hanging om a piece of lace, the false dice (normally 2 and 4 are opposites of eachother) and the beggar resting on top of the bridge. The other scenes were also found in the paintings of the master. The other figure is ready to hit the first man on his behind with a lute… It’s on the first place in the book “101 practical uses for a lute beside playing it”… A man kneeled in a bee hive, there are birds flying oud of his arse. On the treble side is one of the funniest drawings Bosch ever made. During the last restauration the experts even found a new, previously unseen owl when they cleaned one of Bosch’ paintings. He put them in all of his paintings, often hidden in little spaces where you don’t expect them. You can’t make anything related to Bosch without an owl. It’s also a nice excuse to show the ‘inner works’ of the lute, as you see two harmonic bars behind the holes. The two ‘holes’ in the top were inspired by the paintings by Jan Mandijn, after Bosch. I figured that when painted under the strings of the lute, it would give the same effect as in the painting. Some art historians regard this a reflection of the typical depictions of Christ on the cross. A man is tortured in the strings of a harps. The first one was the ‘harp figure’ from the “Garden of Earthly Delights”. Thus I started to gather some scenes that would be appropriate… And what would be more fitting than painting some scenes of his paintings on the lute itself? This is certainly the case with the Jheronimus Bosch lute. Sometimes a project calls for something crazy, something out of the box. But to be admitted the Ruckers started to paint the soundboards of their instruments (or rather had one man to do it for them) with flowers and little pictures of animals etc. Although this was reserved for artists, painters, sculptors and alike, not for common craftsmen like a harpsichord maker. The Ruckers family wanted to become members of the prestigious guild of st. Like the famous “Plan de Paris” viola da gamba (ascribed to Gaspard Tieffenbrucker) in the Muncipal Museum The Hague.Īn exception to this rule are Flemish harpsichord. Sometimes we find some decorated instruments in museums, but it was most often done at a later date. It isn’t customary to paint lutes and guitars. And by painting instruments I mean putting paint on the thing itself, not making a picture of a lute and a couple of grapes for the local pizzeria. 1560).īut I never imagined to paint instruments themselves. The Gamba attributed to Gaspard Tieffenbrucker of Lyon (ca.
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