Strumenti musicali con spartiti, calamaio, libri e mele

Baschenis, Evaristo (1617-1677)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1660-1670
Height:
95.0 cm  (37 3/8 in.)
Width:
128.0 cm  (50 3/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas
Place of creation:
Bergamo (Italia)

Additional titles

Still life with two apples and musical instruments (spinet, theorbo, shawm, cittern, cello and recorder)

    Item location

  • Accademia Carrara (Bergamo)
    [Museum inv. no.: D34 - 1912]Deposito del Comune di Bergamo

Description

Still life with musical instruments piled on a table with books and an ebony case on which are two apples. From the top right a heavy carpet-tent hangs and encloses the picture.
A book with music is opened on the spinet and some music sheets are disposed on the body of the cello but under its strings.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Spinet [2256]
Theorbo [3473]
Shawm [4258]
Cittern [3106]
Violoncello [3582]
Bow [2207]
Recorder [4039]

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Bayer, Andrea, ed. The still lifes of Evaristo Baschenis: The music of silence (Milano: Olivares, 2000) 106-109, cat. 9. ISBN 8885982581. RILM 2000-3168.

Abate, Marco, ed. Evaristo Baschenis e la natura morta in Europa (Milano: Skira, 1996) 202-203. ISBN 8881181193. RILM 1996-21586.

Bott, Gian Casper. Der Klang im Bild: Evaristo Baschenis und die Erfindung des Musikstillebens (Berlin: Reimer, 1997) Abb. 40. ISBN 3496011629.

RIdIM record id

3157