Still Life with Musical Instruments
Technical Details
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Title
Still Life with Musical Instruments -
Author
Evaristo Baschenis -
Year
c. 1650 - 60 -
Dimensions
cm 60 x 88 -
Inventory
2089 -
Room
XXXIII -
Signature
EVARISTO BASCHENI F.
On the table, starting on the left, we see a low-pitched shawn, a mandora, a violin with a bow and a tablature, a system of musical notation for string instruments. Books, fruit and a flute before a curtain complete the composition constructed on the basis of strict scientific rules reflecting the treatises on perspective and the wooden marquetry of the 15th century. Such naturalistic details as the fingerprints in the dust on the mandora may be interpreted as a warning pointing to the inexorable passage of time.
