Pear and musical instruments (Guitar, lutes, mandolin, violin, recorder and cello)

Baschenis, Evaristo (1617-1677)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1665-1675

Height:

115.0 cm  (45 1/4 in.)

Width:

160.0 cm  (63 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

Depicts an early mandolin (mandole or mandola), violin, recorder, and two lutes lying on table. A cello leans against the table on the right. Lying on a box in center of picture is a guitar. Lying on top of the guitar are books and a pear.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394] (Two lutes, the one on the left possibly an archlute)
Mandole [3397]
Violin [3573]
Recorder [4039]
Violoncello [3582]
Guitar [3237]

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) 214-215, cat. no. 36. ISBN 8881181193. RILM 1996-21586.

Bayer, Andrea, ed. The still lifes of Evaristo Baschenis: The music of silence (Milano: Edizioni Olivares, 2000) 114-117, cat. 11. ISBN 88-85982-58-1. RILM 2000-3168.

RIdIM record id

4563