Evaristo Baschenis (1617–1677), Italian Baroque painter; Evaristo Baschenis (7 December – 16 March ) was an Italian Baroque painter of the 17th century, active mainly around his native city of Bergamo. He was born to a family of artists. He is best known for still lifes, most commonly of musical instruments. This could explain his friendship with a family with notable violin makers from Cremona.
First published in 1997. For Biography of BASCHENIS, Evaristo (b. , Bergamo, d. , Bergamo) in the Gallery of Art, a searchable image collection and database of European painting, sculpture and architecture ().
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BASCHENIS, Evaristo Italian painter Evaristo Baschenis (December 7, – March 16, ) was an Italian Baroque painter of the 17th century, active mainly around his native city of Bergamo. He was born to a family of artists. He is best known for still lifes, most commonly of musical instruments.
A term now generally Evaristo Baschenis was an Italian Baroque painter of the 17th century, active mainly around his native city of Bergamo. He was born to a family of artists. He is best known for still lifes, most commonly of musical instruments.
Generated from entries on Italian painter, the outstanding member of a dynasty of artists. Although he was an ordained priest, almost all his pictures depict arrangements of musical instruments—beautifully poised and polished works that led Rudolf Wittkower to describe him as ‘probably Italy's greatest still-life painter’.
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Yet Baschenis incites the urge to touch by rendering everything with palpable veracity; the open drawer, crumpled scores, and silky ribbons appear to project outward, as if within one’s grasp. Baschenis had been all but forgotten outside his native Bergamo when his signature was deciphered on the table leg of this painting.