Banquet of Esther

Bononi, Carlo (1569-1632)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1610
Height:
600.0 cm  (236 1/4 in.)
Width:
700.0 cm  (275 9/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas
Place of creation:
Ravenna (Italia)

    Item location

  • Chiesa di San Domenico (Ravenna)
    The painting is housed in the church.

Description

Banquet scene with a group of musicians preparing to play on the balcony above the guests. The viola da gamba player is tuning his instrument, and the ensemble also includes two vocalists.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Viola da gamba [3604]
Viola [3561]
Lute [3394] (Two lutes.)
Keyboard instruments [2230]
Sackbut (trombone) [4364]

Image URLs

image link 1
Watermarked black and white image from Alinari Archives.

Bibliographic references

Valentini, Anna. "Musicians in early seventeenth-century banqueting scenes in Ferrara", Music in art 38/1-2 (2013) 37-48. RILM 2013-8535.

Notes

This entry has been completed using information from Valentini's article, which includes a detail of the portion of the painting depicting the musicians.

RIdIM record id

3422