Evaristo Baschenis facts for kids

Evaristo Baschenis (left)

Evaristo Baschenis (7 December 1617 – 16 March 1677) was an Italian Baroque painter of the 17th century, active mainly around his native city of Bergamo.

Biography

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. Still-life depiction were uncommon as a thematic among Italian painters prior to the 17th century. Baschenis, along with the more eccentric 16th-century painter Milanese Arcimboldo, represents provincial outputs with idiosyncratic tendencies that appear to appeal to the discernment of forms and shapes rather than grand manner themes of religious or mythologic events. For Arcimboldo, the artifice is everything; for Baschenis, the items, man-made musical instruments, have a purpose and a beauty even in their silent geometry. One source for his photographic style of still life could be Caravaggio's early painting of peaches, or alternatively, Dutch paintings. The most faithful imitator of his style is a younger contemporary Bergamese, Bartolomeo Bettera. Baschenis is a contemporary of the Bergamese portrait artist, Carlo Ceresa, and appears to have been influential for the Modenese artist Cristoforo Munari.

Gallery

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  Musical Instruments on a Table, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

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  Still Life with Musical Instruments, oil on canvas, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

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  Studio of Still Life with Musical Instruments, oil on canvas, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne.

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  Still Life of Musical Instruments (ca. 1670) oil on canvas, Accademia Carrara, Bergamo

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  Still-life with Instruments, Gallerie dell'Accademia

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  Boy with a Basket of Bread (ca. 1655–1665)

See also

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