Word: lutes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proudly announced that Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio's Musicians had turned up and been identified beyond a doubt. Furthermore, the museum had bought it and hung it on the wall for anybody to see: a masterly composition of four languid, toga-clad young men idling to lute music...
Palette & Lute. Leonardo was the bastard of a peasant girl and a small-town notary who finally brought the small boy to live with him. For eleven years, however, Leonardo was not much more than another mouth at the notary's table. At 16, he was shipped to Florence and put to the painter's trade with Maestro (Andrea del Verrocchio because he had shown some flair for the palette...
...Verrocchio's workshops, to the awe of his master, Leonardo's genius unfolded. He learned in a few months almost all that Verrocchio could teach, and soared on through other arts and sciences. He soon played a lute, his countrymen said, more wondrously than any man alive; and the Florentine scientist, Paolo Toscanelli, found the country boy his most precocious pupil...
...less ambitious pictures is Dreaming Girl. Outlined with conscious clumsiness, she fairly bulges her canvas. She is weighted with sleep, yet every line betrays a dreamer's restlessness. Her thick legs press together and her feet lock like hands; her head twists sideways as if to avoid the lute that lies across her. The painting clearly suggests the old Greek theme of Leda, with the lute serving as a dark swan. But Beckmann was not the man to labor his expressionism with handy tags and explanations...
...magazine, to have been called either "The Moon" or "The Lute and Lyre," was to have resembled "Punch...