Still life with spinet, guitar, lute, mandolin and violin

Baschenis, Evaristo (1617-1677)

Item type:

painting

Height:

83.0 cm  (32 11/16 in.)

Width:

100.0 cm  (39 3/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

Five instruments are depicted on a table with bright red cloth: lutes, an early mandolin (mandole or mandola), a spinet, violin and guitar. Two music books are open, on the spinet and under a lute.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394]
Spinet [2256]
Violin [3573]
Guitar [3237]
Mandole [3397]

Musical works

legible music notation

RIdIM images

Bibliographic references

Natura in posa: Aspetti dell'antica natura morta Italiana, ed. by Pietro Lorenzelli and Ferdinando Bologna (Bergamo: Galleria Lorenzelli, 1968) tav. 23. pdf online at http://www.lorenzelli.org/natura-in-posa/

RIdIM record id

263