The lute saw a resurgence in popularity with the early music movement of the late twentieth century. Today, lute players and makers approach the lute and its music from an academic …

The Lute as Art Modern reproductions on display in museums. Musée canadien de l’histoire / Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau, Quebec: Renaissance Lute by Colin Everett .

A lute (/ lj uː t / [1] or / l uː t /) is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body. It may be either …

By the year 1500, the lute’s almost universal appeal throughout Europe had made it a unifying element of Western music and culture. Renaissance composers, singers and dancers all …

Facing away from us, a young woman with pale skin, wearing a golden yellow gown, leans her head down toward the lute she holds nearly upright in her lap in this horizontal painting. She …

The lute's existence in art was more plain between 2330–2000 BC (the 2nd Uruk period), when the art had sufficient detail to show the instrument clearly. The instrument spread among the …

Many old master paintings of lutes can be found by putting the name of a painter in a general search engine plus the word lute. The distinction between online and real picture galleries is to …

The Lute Iconography Database (LuteIDB) is an online resource for lute makers, scholars, players and others interested in the iconography of the lute. It contains over 3300 iconographic entries …

Title: Lute. Maker: Sixtus Rauchwolff (German, Augsburg 1556?–after 1629) Date: 1596. Geography: Augsburg, Germany. Culture: German. Medium: Rosewood, ivory, wood, ebony. …

The Museum's collection of medieval and Byzantine art is among the most comprehensive in the world, encompassing the art of the Mediterranean and Europe from the fall of Rome to the …