Harp, mandolino, lute and violin with statuette

Baschenis, Evaristo (1617-1677)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1660-1670
Height:
88.6 cm  (34 7/8 in.)
Width:
114.7 cm  (45 3/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Accademia Carrara (Bergamo)
    [Museum inv. no.: 1390 or 58AC00119]

Description

Still life depicts musical instruments lying on a table: a small harp, mandolino (mandole or mandola), lute, and violin with bow. A statuette of a nude male is on the far left. Underneath the lute is music.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Harp [3285]
Lute [3394]
Violin [3573]
Mandole [3397]

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Abate, Marco, ed. Evaristo Baschenis e la natura morta in Europa (Milano: Skira, 1996) 156-157, cat. no. 11. ISBN 8881181193. RILM 1996-21586.

Bott, Gian Casper. Der Klang im Bild: Evaristo Baschenis und die Erfindung des Musikstillebens (Berlin: Reimer, 1997) Farbabb. 6. ISBN 3496011629.

Bayer, Andrea, ed. The still lifes of Evaristo Baschenis: The music of silence (Milano: Edizioni Olivares, 2000) 88-91, cat. 5. RILM 2000-3168.

RIdIM record id

4551