Still life with two lutes, violin, mandolino and cello

Baschenis, Evaristo (1617-1677)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1660-1670
Height:
75.0 cm  (29 1/2 in.)
Width:
108.0 cm  (42 1/2 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Accademia Carrara (Bergamo)
    [Museum inv. no.: 1206 or 58AC00105]

Description

On a table with green cloth are two lutes, a mandolino (mandole or mandola), and a violin resting on a black box with a small open drawer holding a quill pen. Beside the table is a cello.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394] (Two lutes)
Violin [3573] (with bow)
Bow [2207]
Mandole [3397] (Five courses, based on the visible guitar-style pegboard)
Violoncello [3582]

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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Web Gallery of Art entry

Bibliographic references

Abate, Marco, ed. Evaristo Baschenis e la natura morta in Europa (Milano: Skira, 1996) 232-235, cat. no. 43. ISBN 8881181193. RILM 1996-21586.

Bott, Gian Casper. Der Klang im Bild: Evaristo Baschenis und die Erfindung des Musikstillebens (Berlin: Reimer, 1997) Farbabb. 8. ISBN 3496011629.

RIdIM record id

4556