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Music in the art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Boating Party, from the Book of Hours, Flemish ca. 1500

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Attributed to Albrecht Durer, in Sebastian Brant: Narrenschiff, 1494

The earliest European picture of a lute, from the Cantigas de Santa Maria, an early book of pilgrim songs by Alfonso X ('el Sabio') of Spain in the 12th century. The instrument is clearly Arabic, and probably of Moorish manufacture.

If you know the painter or provenance of this one, please let me know. Looks like a pretty wild party, though...

from around 1515, from the Da Costa Hours

the Triumph of Venus, by Francesco Cossa, 1470

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	Attributed to Albrecht Durer, in Sebastian Brant: Narrenschiff, 1494
	The earliest European picture of a lute, from the Cantigas de Santa Maria, an early book of pilgrim songs by Alfonso X ('el Sabio') of Spain in the 12th century. The instrument is clearly Arabic, and probably of Moorish manufacture.
	If you know the painter or provenance of this one, please let me know. Looks like a pretty wild party, though...
	from around 1515, from the Da Costa Hours
	the Triumph of Venus, by Francesco Cossa, 1470