Musical instruments with fruit and books

Baschenis, Evaristo (1617-1677)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

ca. 1650

Height:

60.0 cm  (23 5/8 in.)

Width:

88.0 cm  (34 5/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

Still-life consisting of four musical instruments lying on a table: a mandolino (mandole or mandola), violin with bow (or viola), recorder, and shawm (depiction not clear as only the bottom of instrument appears). There is also a open book of illegible music.

Iconclass

41E
still life of miscellaneous objects

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Mandole [3397] (early type of mandolin with lute-style pegbox)
Violin [3573]
Recorder [4039]
Shawm [4258]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Abate, Marco, ed. Evaristo Baschenis e la natura morta in Europa (Milano: Skira, 1996) 146-147, cat. no. 7. ISBN 8881181193. RILM 1996-21586.

RIdIM record id

4548