Musicians

These people look like they don’t know how to play instruments. The one on the left side looks like he has the horn in his mouth, the one in the middle looks like he is playing a clarinet like a flute, and the one on the right looks like he is playing a bent lead pipe. In addition the people in the back look like they are complaining about how horrible the music is. I wanted to write about this painting because it looks kind of funny. I am in marching band so I know what it looks like to play these instruments and it is not the way these people are painted.

This painting is near some stairs. You can see it when you’re on a landing. Sometimes it is easy to see. Sometimes it is not easy to see when the museum is busy because you have to stop on the stairs to look at it and that bothers some people because they want you to keep walking up the stairs. I don’t think most people notice this painting because it is high up and no one looks at the wall when they’re going upstairs except for me. They look at the stairs so they don’t fall on the stairs. I look at the wall when I go up the stairs so I can look engrossed at the paintings.

The Facts:

• Giorgio Vasari (Arezzo, 1511-1574, Florence)
• About 1545
• Material: Fresco
• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: Second Floor Stairhall & Stairway
• Collection listing details