Musical instruments with fruit and 'ribbon daisy'

Baschenis, Evaristo (1617-1677)

Item type:

painting

Height:

83.0 cm  (32 11/16 in.)

Width:

98.0 cm  (38 9/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

Lying on a table are a lute, mandolino (mandore), violin, guitar and spinet (partially visible) with two open books of music. An apple or orange is placed on the spinet, and a 'daisy' is made of red ribbon tied around a small knob on the spinet. A book is placed on the guitar: The Island, or fabulous adventures by Maiolino Bisaccioni, printed in Venice in 1648.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394]
Mandore [3512]
Violin [3573]
Spinet [2256]
Guitar [3237]

Musical works

legible 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) 188-189, cat. no. 25. ISBN 8881181193. RILM 1996-21586.

RIdIM record id

4562