Still-life with instruments, globe and ebony cabinet

Baschenis, Evaristo (1617-1677)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1667-1677

Height:

108.0 cm  (42 1/2 in.)

Width:

153.0 cm  (60 1/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

In this still-life Baschenis depicts a lute, a mandolino (mandole or mandola), a violin with bow on top of an ebony chest or desk with inlays, a recorder, and a partially visible shawm. Also present are a globe, on which rests a single flower.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violin [3573]
Lute [3394]
Treble recorder [4096]
Shawm [4258]
Mandole [3397]

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Ember, Ildikó. Music in painting: Music as a symbol in Renaissance and Baroque painting. Trans. by Mary and András Boros-Kazai (Budapest: Corvina, 1984) plate 45. ISBN 9631317234. RILM 1984-6813.

Abate, Marco, ed. Evaristo Baschenis e la natura morta in Europa (Milano: Skira, 1996) 204-207, cat. no. 33. ISBN 8881181193. RILM 1996-21586.

Bayer, Andrea, ed. The still lifes of Evaristo Baschenis: The music of silence (Milano: Edizioni Olivares, 2000) 110-113, cat. 10. ISBN 88-85982-58-1. RILM 2000-3168.

RIdIM record id

3534