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Unknown (Netherlandish)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1625-1649

Height:

70.0 cm  (27 9/16 in.)

Width:

92.0 cm  (36 1/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Additional titles

Description

Landscape with ruins of a city on the coast. In the middle are represented three children busy with reading and writing; before them, lying on the ground, are piles of books and geometry instruments. Under the porch on the left, a group of scientists around a table with a globe and, against the wall, is represented a bookcase. On a pillar at the entrance hangs a clock. Right in the foreground are two monkeys and a group of objects that refer to fun and entertainment: musical instruments, playing cards, glasses with wine, a triktrak game, masks, swords, a music book and the torso of a statue. In the background dancing comedians are gathered for a play staged outside a village. Up in the air, driving his chariot, is Mercury. From the chariot, some musical instruments are falling, including a viola d'amore, tambourine, shawm, and a recorder, among the other objects.

Iconclass

49C0
symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ science, 'Scientia'; 'Scienza', 'Studio' (Ripa)
46B0
allegory of trade; 'Commertio della vita humana' (Ripa)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violone [3609]
Lute [3394]
Shawm [4258]
Sackbut (trombone) [4364]
End-blown flute [3940]
Viola d'amore [3608]
Recorder [4039]
Tambourine [2746]

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Mirimonde, A.P. de. "Les allégories de la musique II", Gazette des Beaux-Arts 73 (1969) 351, plate 19.

Lennep, J. van. "L'alchemiste: Origine et développement d'un thème de la peinture du dix-septième siècle", Revue belge d'archéologie et d'histoire de l'art 35 (1966) 153, note 1.

Ertz, Klaus. Jan Breughel the younger (1601-1678): the paintings with oeuvre catalogue (Freren: Luca, 1984) 388-389, nr. 224-226. ISBN 9783923641031.

Jongh, E. de. Muziek aan de muur: muzikale voorstellingen in de Nederlanden 1500-1700 (Zwolle: Waanders Uitgeverij; 's-Hertogenbosch: Noordbrabants Museum, 2008) 41. ISBN 9789040084706.

RIdIM record id

2954