Cupids carrying the themes of the picture

Severini, Gino (1883-1966)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1929

Height:

116.5 cm  (45 7/8 in.)

Width:

89.3 cm  (35 3/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

Text from the museum website:
Severini’s work of the 1920s reflects his fascination with motifs from Italian history and art. Grouped here are architectural ruins from classical antiquity; a mask evoking both Bacchus, ancient god of wine, and traditional commedia dell’arte theatre; and musical instruments recalling the seventeenth-century Italian still lifes of Evaristo Baschenis. The arrangement is surmounted by cupids carrying still-life objects before a backdrop that surprisingly reverses sky and wall.

Iconclass

41E
still life of miscellaneous objects
41D283
mask

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Guitar [3237]
Lute [3394] (or mandolin)

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

5916