Troubadour Collection

Senegal - Griot playing a Kora
Senegal - seated Griot playing a Kora, a 21-stringed harp lute that originated in the Gambia River valley with the Mandinko but is one of the most popular instruments in Senegal

Sketch for Le Peintre, by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (1815-1891). The artist leans back to view his work, resting his head on a womans shoulder

Poor Uyghur Musicians - Kashgar. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

The Song to the Moon - Kay Nielsen
The Song to the Moon - The Art of Kay Nielsen. Date: 1913

Payo Gomez Charino (ca. 1225-1295)
Payo Gomez Charino (ca.1225-1295). Galician poet and nobleman. Major governor (Adelantado Mayor) of the Kingdom of Galicia and troubadour in the Galician language. Portrait, detail

A sketch of a troubadour in Venice, 1924 Date: 1924

Troubadour playing on six instruments, 1815
Troubadour playing on six instruments in front of Prussian and Scots soldiers, 1815. By moving his head, elbows and knees, he plays pan pipes, mandolin, drum, triangle

Skeleton of Death extinguishing candles before a Canoness
Skeleton of Death extinguishing candles on an altar before a Canoness as she listens to a young troubadour playing a lute

Mackenzies New Opera The Troubadour
Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzies New Opera The Troubadour - Act 3 - Guillem and Margarida. Guillem: " The Dawn! the dawn

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Senegal - Griot playing a Xalam
A Griot Xalam Player - Senegal. The most common stringed instrument in Senegal. Griots of many ethnic groups play it, including the Wolof, Sereer, Mandinko, Malinke, Fulbe, and Tukuloor

Blankenberghe, Belgium - a beach troubador, thoroughly entertaining a group of children in their bathing costumes

Peire Cardenal or Pierre Cardinal, troubadour, 1180-1278.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from French Costumes from King Clovis to Our Days, Massard, Mifliez, Paris

A Fairy Serenade - Fairy Troubadour atop a mushroom
A Fairy Serenade - A Fairy Troubadour atop a mushroom belting out some love songs for his girl... Date: 1920s

A Florentine Singer by Paul Dubois - Musee du Luxembourg. Date: circa 1910s

A wandering street Minstrel, Kathmandu, Nepal. Date: circa 1950s

Alfonso II of Aragon (1157-1196) and his wife Sancha of Cast
Alfonso II of Aragon or Alfons I of Catalonia (1157-1196), called the Chaste. King of Aragon and Count of Barcelona from 1164 until 1196

Troubadours singing and reciting a poem, written in Occitan. 12th and 13th centuries. Colored engraving

Pierre Rogiers, troubadour and musician, 12th century.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from French Costumes from King Clovis to Our Days, Massard, Mifliez, Paris, 1834

Mabille de Riez, French beauty at the court of Provence, 12thC.. Handcolored copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from French Costumes from King Clovis to Our Days, Massard, Mifliez

Carpet from the Signaringen Museum depicting events from the French epic poem William of Orleans.. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Altenecks Costumes

Ms 490. Folio 63r. Roman of Ogier the Dane (Ogier le Danois), legendary character of the 8th century. Encounter of two armies. Prose chronicle ca

The opera Tannhauser
The troubadour Tannhauser sings to Venus the goddess of beauty, of the ecsatsy of love. Artist: Alan Wright Date: 1912

Wandering Algerian musician
Itinerant Algerian musician playing a local three-stringed guitar-type instrument. Date: circa 1910s

MENDES DE BESTEIROS, Alfonso. Portuguese troubadour. Cantiga by Alfonso Mendes. Poem n 1558. Cod. 10941. PORTUGAL. Lisbon. National Library

Adenes le Roi, French troubadour
Adenes le Roi(c. 1240-c. 1300), French trouvere, performs to an audience of medieval ladies out of doors Date: 13th century

Heyst sur Mer, Belgium - A Troubadour Date: 1923

Trovatore - 1
Manrico the troubadour serenades Leonora but is overheard by the Count di Luna who of course is also in love with Leonora

Trovatore - 2
Manrico the troubadour and the Count di Luna confront each other and prepare to fight a duel

French Street Traders
A man pulls a water cart, a minstrel sings along to his hand-cranked music box and a lady sits mending socks, on a street with a dentist, upholsterer and oyster shop

Medieval Trouvere
A trouvere (troubadour) entertains the company in the great hall of a medieval chateau

Page from a Troubadour poem
A page from a Troubadour poem, written in Italian and Provencal, with decorated initial letters and decorated margins

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