The five senses

Preti, Mattia (1613-1699)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1633-1651

Height:

195.0 cm  (76 3/4 in.)

Width:

285.0 cm  (112 3/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Place of creation:

Roma

School:

Caravaggism

Description

This scene takes place in a tavern: a fiddle player and a young woman at the keyboard accompany a poet laureate playing the lute; another man is leaning on the cover of the keyboard, two servants bring respectively a decanter of wine and roasted chickens on the spit.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394]
Harpsichord [2251]
Violin [3573]

RIdIM images

Bibliographic references

Santarelli, Cristina. Iconografia musicale nei musei torinesi (Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana (LIM), 2003) 117-119. ISBN 887096373X. RILM 2003-08617.

Santarelli, Cristina. "Considerazioni su alcuni dipinti a carattere musicale delle collezioni torinesi", RIdIM Newsletter 18/2 (1993) 53-59. RILM 1993-13927.

RIdIM record id

3123