I apologize for posting a slightly off-topic question, but it is at least related to Artemisia Gentileschi, and maybe you drawing-types can explain something for me.
Artemisia's father Orazio was also a painter (she learned the craft from him). For many years I had a print of his "The Lute Player" hanging over my breakfast table, where I saw it every day. (I am fond of Renaissance music and cosplay, so.)
--> Is there something off about the placement of the main figure's ear? To me, it looks set oddly far back from her eye (I say, feeling around to figure out how many finger-widths my own left ear is set behind my eye).
(Not to mention that weirdly twisted posture, in which she's going to strain her neck as well as drop her music on the floor, but I guess that's just typical Italian Mannerist twistiness. Like in his picture of St. Cecilia -- that angel is *not* holding the music where a real keyboard player could see it.)
