Musical instruments with books and fruit

Baschenis, Evaristo (1617-1677)


Item type:
painting
Height:
65.5 cm  (25 13/16 in.)
Width:
87.5 cm  (34 7/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Palazzo Pisani Moretta (Venezia)

Description

Still life of musical instruments lying on table, depicted are: shawm, mandolino (mandole or mandola), recorder, a violin with bow lying on sheets of illegible music, and two circular objects (possibly tambourines).

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Mandole [3397]
Shawm [4258]
Violin [3573]
Recorder [4039]
Tambourine [2746]

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1
Image from the exhibition Three Centuries of Italian Art (National Gallery of Australia)

Bibliographic references

Abate, Marco, ed. Evaristo Baschenis e la natura morta in Europa (Milano: Skira, 1996) 150-151, cat. no. 8. ISBN 8881181193. RILM 1996-21586.

Bayer, Andrea, ed. The still lifes of Evaristo Baschenis: The music of silence (Milano: Edizioni Olivares, 2000) 82-85, cat. 3. RILM 2000-3168.

RIdIM record id

4549