"Ive" <ive### [at] lilysoftorg> schreef in bericht news:4d50498a@news.povray.org...
> Lately, while I visited our local museum and its huge collection of
> historical music instruments, I did spot a virginals made by the Flemish
> manufacturer Ruckers ca. 1610.
> This virginals did indeed look close to the one seen in the Vermeer
> painting "The Music Lesson" and so I started to rebuild it and to update
> my scene from 2002 (some of you might even remember):

A truly excellent job. Impressive scene indeed.

> "PARTHENIA or The Maidenhead" was a popular collection of tunes for the
> virginals (a kind of "best of" or "hit list" from the early 17th
> century) and might very well have found its way to Delft. And it also
> includes my favorite renaissance composition: "The Earl of Salisbury,
> Pavane & Galliard" by William Byrd.

I love that music above all.

Thomas

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