The Portrait of an Italian Lira Player in Dublin: Attalante Migliorati

Abstract

[1] Mr. Herbert Cook has supplemented his report2 on this year’s exhibition at the Academy in London with some reproductions of remarkable Italian paintings, which he was granted only by the personal kindness of their respective owners, since the direction of the exhibition had not allowed this time around, strangely enough, the taking of photographs. Precisely because of such reproductions, Mr. Cook has deserved the special gratitude of those who could not themselves travel to London, as the following study, too, could only be spurred and made possible by the reproduction of the paintings themselves.3 —What captivated me, like many other friends of the Italian Quattrocento, I reckon, was above all the portrait of the violin player by an unknown master from the Gallery in Dublin. A musician is shown, as he is tuning his string instrument;4 he plucks with the thumb of his well-trained