Called "The Argument, " the painting depicts a street scene and a couple of men who look like minstrels in blackface, with oversize red lips.

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Bards and minstrels still wandered from place to place with their lyres, mandolins, and guitars, but music was increasingly something audiences went to instead of with.

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They were written by defrocked monk and minstrels, I'm told.

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