Books with musical instruments

Baschenis, Evaristo (1617-1677)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1660s

Height:

98.0 cm  (38 9/16 in.)

Width:

145.0 cm  (57 1/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

Resting on a table covered with a red, patterned cloth are: a spinet with open book of legible music on its rack; a violin lying on the spinet, a guitar mostly obscured by the spinet rests face down; a lute and a mandolino (mandore) are on the left side with an open book of legible music under the spinet and lute and several closed books lying in background.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394] (Marked M+H (lute maker Michael Hartung))
Mandore [3512]
Spinet [2256]
Violin [3573]
Guitar [3237]

Musical works

legible music notation

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Abate, Marco, ed. Evaristo Baschenis e la natura morta in Europa (Milano: Skira, 1996) 184-187, cat. no. 24. ISBN 8881181193. RILM 1996-21586.

RIdIM record id

4561