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| Bernardo Strozzi Lute Player ca. 1640-45 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Jan van Scorel Portrait of a Lute Player ca. 1530 oil on panel Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Jean de Reyn Lute Player ca. 1650 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| attributed to Simone Peterzano Venus playing the Lute ca. 1565-70 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| Jan Molitor Portrait of a Young Man with a Lute 1741 oil on canvas Národní Galerie, Prague |
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| Jan Miense Molenaer Self Portrait as Lute Player ca. 1637-38 oil on panel National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Adam de Coster Lute Player ca. 1620-30 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden |
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| Anonymous French Artist after Simon Vouet Lute Player ca. 1620 oil on canvas Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genève |
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| Johann Bruederle Card Game with Lute Player ca. 1630 oil on canvas Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
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| Jacob van Loo Musical Company ca. 1665-66 oil on canvas Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Francesco Primaticcio Group with Musicians in a Garden ca. 1540-50 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Godaert Kamper Musical Party ca. 1660 oil on panel Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Francesco Fontebasso Musicians behind a Balustrade ca. 1743-50 drawing (design for ceiling painting) Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Leonaert Bramer Musicians on a Balcony ca. 1616-27 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Gaetano Gherardo Zompini Centaur Chiron teaching Music to Achilles ca. 1758 drawing (print study) Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Evaristo Baschenis Still Life with Musical Instruments, Globe and Armillary Sphere ca. 1660 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
from Time and the Witch Vivien
A marble-flagged, pillared room. Magical instruments in one corner. A fountain in the centre.
Vivien [looking down into the fountain.]
Where moves there any beautiful as I,
Save, with the little golden greedy carp,
Gold unto gold, a gleam in its long hair,
Save, with the little golden greedy carp,
Gold unto gold, a gleam in its long hair,
My image yonder? [Spreading her hand over the water.]
Ah, my beautiful,
What roseate fingers! [Turning away.]
What roseate fingers! [Turning away.]
No; nor is there one
Of equal power in spells and secret rites.
The proudest or most coy of spirit things,
The proudest or most coy of spirit things,
Hide where he will, in wave or wrinkled moon,
Obeys.
Some fierce magician flies or walks
Beyond the gateway – by the sentries now –
Close and more close – I feel him in my heart –
Some great one. No; I hear the wavering steps
Without there of a little, light old man;
I dreamt some great one.
Obeys.
Some fierce magician flies or walks
Beyond the gateway – by the sentries now –
Close and more close – I feel him in my heart –
Some great one. No; I hear the wavering steps
Without there of a little, light old man;
I dreamt some great one.
– W.B. Yeats (1882-84)