Strumenti musicali

Baschenis, Evaristo (1617-1677) (attributed to)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

mid-17th century

Height:

100.0 cm  (39 3/8 in.)

Width:

145.5 cm  (57 5/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

Lying on table top covered with rug is a spinet, with an apple resting on the left corner. Lying on the top of the spinet are two early mandolins (mandola or mandole), a lute and, under a guitar lies a recorder (end only showing), violin and bow with, on the far right, a cello (only neck and scroll of instrument showing). A sheet of illegible music is hanging off the table.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Mandole [3397]
Guitar [3237]
Lute [3394]
Violoncello [3582]
Spinet [2256]
Violin [3573]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Abate, Marco, ed. Evaristo Baschenis e la natura morta in Europa (Milano: Skira, 1996) 162-163, cat. no. 14. ISBN 8881181193. RILM 1996-21586.

RIdIM record id

5876