SUBLIMINAL MESSAGES

Evoke your musical senses with Vermeer,
by ELLEN MACDONALD-KRAMER

If you're in London before 8 September 2013, take an hour out of your day to visit the National Gallery's temporary exhibition Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure.

Not only does the small exhibition showcase beautiful music-themed paintings by the esteemed Dutch artist and his contemporaries, but there are a number of antique musical instruments on display. Among the finest are a beautiful twenty-stringed lute from around 1630, and a striking cittern with a carved head of an African boy.

There were many delightful bits of knowledge to be picked up from the paintings of domestic scenes...

NETHERLANDS

LUTE MUSIC

GUITAR MUSIC

SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

PAINTINGS

KNOWLEDGE