Musical instruments (guitars, cittern, violone, mandolin, lute and violin) with apples

Baschenis, Evaristo (1617-1677)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
17th century
Height:
98.5 cm  (38 3/4 in.)
Width:
147.0 cm  (57 7/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique
    [Museum inv. no.: 3893]

Description

Still life with several instruments on a table: two guitars, cittern, a fretted violone or bass viol, mandole (mandola), violin with bow, and lute.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violone [3609]
Violin [3573]
Guitar [3237] (Two guitars)
Cittern [3106]
Mandole [3397]
Lute [3394]

Musical works

legible music notation

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Bibliographic references

Evaristo Baschenis e la natura morta in Europa (Milano: Skira, 1996) 228-231, cat. no. 42. ISBN 8881181193.

Bott, Gian Casper. Der Klang im Bild: Evaristo Baschenis und die Erfindung des Musikstillebens (Berlin: Reimer, 1997) Farbabb. 1. ISBN 3496011629.

Bayer, Andrea, ed. The still lifes of Evaristo Baschenis: The music of silence (Milano: Edizioni Olivares, 2000) 128-129, cat. 15. ISBN 88-85982-58-1. RILM 2000-3168.

RIdIM record id

3356