Mandolins in visual art

**Chris W.** · Jul-08-2021, 10:19am

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This was outside a restaurant in Sorrento, Italy

**Chris W.** · Jul-08-2021, 10:28am

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Painted on a wall in Florence

**journeybear** · Jul-08-2021, 10:34am

Originally Posted by Chris W.

This was outside a restaurant in Sorrento, Italy

Wonder if he was playing "Torna A Surriento."

**Billy Packard** · Jul-08-2021, 8:38pm

Curious string arrangement!

BILLY

**David Lewis** · Jul-09-2021, 7:29am

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This was in the museum at Zagreb, Croatia. I’ve lost the attribution alas.

**David Lewis** · Jul-09-2021, 7:32am

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Found it

**journeybear** · Jul-09-2021, 7:37am

Originally Posted by Billy Packard

Curious string arrangement!

Yes, a bit.

I tried to find a version that was pretty mandolinny, and without vocals. These tenors - overwrought and obstreperous. This was actually about the best I could find.

**Richard G** · Jul-09-2021, 8:01am

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**Jess L.** · Jul-09-2021, 5:08pm

Mural painted on a building in Aberdeen, WA, USA. Artist and history info is in older thread. Car in lower left corner gives an idea of the size:

Close-up view of mandolin part:

I took the above two pics a couple years ago, but the mural also shows up on Google Maps Street View (I don't know if I did that link right, if the link works then you can pan around to see the surrounding areas and see the mural from different angles and zoom levels, if not then just look up the Jack In The Box hamburger joint in Aberdeen WA and the mural is just across the street.)

Oddly, the Google Maps version blurs out some (but not all) of the faces in the mural. Guess their automated algorithms can't always tell the difference between paintings vs real faces. Screenshot sample: