Man playing the theorbo

Gramatica, Antiveduto (1571-1626)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1611
Height:
119.0 cm  (46 7/8 in.)
Width:
85.0 cm  (33 7/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas
Place of creation:
Roma
School:
Caravaggism

    Item location

  • Galleria Sabauda (Torino)
    [Museum inv. no.: 93]formerly in the private collection of the marquis Falletti di Barolo

Description

A young man looking toward his right plays a theorbo or possibly a 'theorboed guitar'; on the table are a music book, a five-course Baroque guitar and a tambourine with jingles but no drumhead.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Theorbo [3473]
Guitar [3237] (5-course Baroque guitar with vaulted back)
Tambourine [2746]

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Santarelli, Cristina. Iconografia musicale nei musei torinesi (Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana (LIM), 2003) 54-55. ISBN 887096373X. RILM 2003-08617.

Spencer, Robert. "The chitarrone francese", Early music 4/2 (1976) 164-166.

Elliott, Peter. "Retuning la guittare theorbée", Early music 47/2 (May 2019) 255-260.

RIdIM record id

3117