#lute player

[nexeliam]

The 12th chapter in my fanfiction "The Blind Wizard" is finally here.

Feel free to check it out on AO3 or Wattpad :)

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Charles Caryl Coleman (American, 1848-1928) Interior with Lute Player, 1875

[galleryofart]

Lady Playing a Lute in an Interior

Artist: Eglon van der Neer (Dutch, 1634/36-1703)

Date: 1675

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: The Leiden Collection, New York City, NY, United States

Description

Eglon van der Neer’s musician presents an elegant figure as she sits before stately architecture touched with gilt and partly masked by a swag of heavy curtain. She rests her elbow on a velvet-draped table crammed with costly objects, including a book of tablature, a flute, a rumpled satin cloth, a silver ewer, a marble (?) statue of a putto, and an open jewel casket. The woman herself is no less opulently packaged: she wears a fur-trimmed crimson house jacket over a shimmering white satin skirt and a bodice stiff with gold brocade. Emerging from the garments like Venus rising from the surf, the iridescent flesh of her plump arms and inviting décolletage is accentuated by the delicate frill of a white chemise. The young musician’s downcast gaze as she quietly listens to the sounds of her instrument help create the painting’s reflective mood and engaging character.

Taking full advantage of his meticulous technique, Van der Neer has carefully calculated every aspect of the painting to entice the senses of touch, sight and sound, and in so doing, to emphasize the inherent sensuality of the image itself. The deliberate juxtaposition of so many luxurious surface textures prompts admiration of the artist’s skill, and the accuracy of the illusion allows the viewer to dwell on the pleasurable aesthetic and sensorial qualities of the actual objects.5 Nowhere is this more seductively presented than in Van der Neer’s rendering of the woman’s soft flesh: in visually “touching” her flesh (as well as the other objects in the painting), we are led to consider the touch of her fingers upon the strings of the lute. We imagine the sweet sounds produced by her playing, which prompts us to summon pleasant recollections of our own musical experiences. The reverse is also true, of course: seeing her fingers dance across the lute strings prompts us to imagine our own fingers testing surfaces and textures so meticulously and sensually presented.

[meisterdrucke]

Self-Portrait as a Lute Player, c.1615-18 by Artemisia Gentileschi (Öl auf Leinwand)

[tragediambulante]

Meeting of drinkers, Bartolomeo Manfredi, 1621

[reagan-the-saunders]

Ranger, Beast-Tamer, & Lute-Player.

[musicsweetmusic]

A painting by Andrea Solario

[bottegapowerpoint]

Parrasio Micheli, Young Woman Playing a Lute

[jackrabbitomniscient]

Shout out to this Medieval donkey-dog man I found on Pinterest

[paulpingminho]

[fistfuloftarenths]

lute! because you can sing while you hold it, use its body as a drum, use its strings as a garrote, and bash in people's heads with the thick end if you hold it like a club (her own lute was left back in the Gate when she got nautiloidnapped and is far too precious for such treatment but the life of an adventurer is different)

having said that she also cut her fingers a lot trying to master minthara's lyre because of curiousity and stupidity but got there in the end

Actually . I am curious

If your character canonically plays multiple of these or maybe their preferred instrument wasn’ t included in the game , choose the one you picked on the character creation screen

If you have multiple bards , choose the first one you made to answer with

Please reblog if you vote to feed my curiosities and also maybe tell me what instrument and why ….. < 3

[jbureyart]

The Young Composer

Media: Digital

[dungeon-meshi-tournament]

Im submitting fucked-up mithrun outfit, the cutesy variety outfits for thistle aaaand wondering if maybe different fur colors can count as an outfit? 🤞maybe at least the cute calico variant? (if not, ah well.)

Oh yeah, sure. Calico Izutsumi is allowed in the tournament.

[goobobbers]

A lute player of the Marius Ronies family. Circa. 1491 DR

[pourpasserlamelancholie]

@lutes-of-the-world Can you say something about the type of instrument? Is it an archlute?

1677 Eglon van der Neer - Lute player

(Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe)

[videogamelover99]

Chris Pine's character not knowing any spells and using his lute to wack ppl over the head was probably the funniest thing that I, a bard main, had ever seen.