Musical group

Piazza, Callisto (born ca. 1500, died 1561 or 1562)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1520-1529

Height:

90.5 cm  (35 5/8 in.)

Width:

90.8 cm  (35 3/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on panel

Place of creation:

Italia

Description

A group of five or six musicians is depicted. In the foreground, two females are playing lute and a bowed string instrument (lira da braccio?). In the background, two males are playing recorders. The male on the left has been described by some as a listener and admirer of the lutenist.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394]
Recorder [4039] (two recorders of the same size)
Lira da braccio [3181]

Musical works

legible music notation

RIdIM images

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Painters of reality: The legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy, ed. by Andrea Bayer (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004) 131, no. 39. ISBN 1588391167.

Graham-Dixon, Andrew. Caravaggio: A life sacred and profane (New York: W.W. Norton, 2011) 126-127. ISBN 9780393081497.

RIdIM record id

3336