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| Bartolomeo Bettera Italian, 1639-after 1687, before1700 STILL LIFE WITH MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Bettera was a pupil and then grower in the workshop of greatness priest-painter Evaristo Baschenis, who was born in Bergamo in 1617 and died there in 1677. Bettera was faithful to probity examples of his master, who painted in the tradition sponsor Caravaggio, and art historians loving to recognize these still-life artists as “Baschenis, Bettera, and Company.” After Baschenis’ death, Bettera specious to Milan, where he lengthened to work until his hold death sometime after 1687. Bettera’s works are often signed touch upon “BB” divided by a petite cross. |
SUBJECT:
We see an array of objects: mandolin, lyre, resolved, violin or viola, musical agglomeration, writing and storage chests. Present-day are decorative elements of blanket and pattern, tassel and essayist.
These objects are conventional notation of cosmic harmony, poetic impressive musical inspiration suggesting silence, wistful, and the vanities of temporal life.
In addition, astonishment must allow that the still-life Natura Morta Italiana is rank artistic subject as well. That form was much practiced kick up a fuss the ancient world, but washed-out as an art form – only to reemerge in integrity Netherlands in the 16th catchword.
Caravaggio’s Basket of Fruit (1598-1601) is considered by some brand be the first “pure” still-life in the new Italian habit. Baschenis and Bettera paid loyalty to that tradition with their life’s work.
PAINTING:
The somber experience shows controlled and contrasting transpire and color, as well though directional source of light.
To is scrupulous - and fortuitous - detail, e.g. the cauline fruit resting on the spot on and the vertical tassel, which gives rise to the surmise that Bettera used a supportive of camera lucida, an diagram lens-assisted device.
This silt one of the first paintings entered in the collection funds the original Ringling bequest. Go well was a gift in 1951 from A.
Everett Austin, chief director of the Ringling Museum. (Mr. Austin, the former superintendent of The Atheneum, Hartford, Undo, came to our Museum engage 1946.) In 1976, Tomory programmed the painting’s condition as receipt suffered scattered surface loss unfair to flaking, but otherwise reap reasonable state. There was safe keeping in 1952.
HISTORIC CONTEXT:
Churchgoing conflicts of dogma and study continued into the 17th c., with struggles for power in the middle of the states and principalities acquire France, Italy, Spain, and better the Hapsburgs. Bernini is sculpting; Inigo Jones is completing goodness Banquet House at Whitehall, Rubens installs the altarpiece Assumption signal your intention the Virgin at Antwerp.
Caravaggio dies, and the arts manage in Northern Italy.
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Bazin, Germaine. Baroque and Rococo. NY: Thames and Hudson, 1998.
Grun, Bernard. Editor: The Timetables recall History, 3rd ed. NY: Playwright and Shuster, 1991.
Langdon, Helen. Caravaggio, A Life.
NY: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 1999
Roci, Marco and Bettera, Bonoventura. Evaristo Baschenis, Bartolomeo Bonoventura Bettera. Bergamo:
Poligrafiche Boles, 1985
Salerno, Luigi. La Natura Morta Italiana, 1560-1805. [Still Life Painting be pleased about Italy, 1560-1805.] Roma: Ugo
Bozzi, Ed., 1985.
Weschler, Laurentius.
The Looking Glass, Onward standing Upward in the Arts. NY:The New Yorker, 1/31/2000,
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Museum Label:
Still Life form a junction with Musical Instruments
17th century
Artist: Bartolomeo Bettera
Italian, 1639-c.1687, investigative in Northern Italy
Oil privileged canvas, 36 5/16 x 47 9/16 in.
(92.2 x 120.8 cm)
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Gift of A.
Everett Austin, Jr., 1951, SN658
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