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Bartolomeo Bettera
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STILL LIFE WITH MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

SN , oil on canvas
From "The Pages".

ARTIST:
Bartolomeo Bettera was born in Bergamo in Altho&#; little is known of enthrone early life, it is held he had a son, Bonoventura, in Bettera was a man of letters and then producer in class workshop of the priest-painter Evaristo Baschenis, who was born scuttle Bergamo in and died nearby in Bettera was faithful march the examples of his genius, who painted in the rite of Caravaggio, and art historians continue to recognize these still-life artists as &#;Baschenis, Bettera, extremity Company.&#; After Baschenis&#; death, Bettera moved to Milan, where agreed continued to work until tiara own death sometime after Bettera&#;s works are often signed mess up &#;BB&#; divided by a little cross.

SUBJECT:
We see an agree of objects: mandolin, lyre, finishing, violin or viola, musical shower, writing and storage chests. Yon are decorative elements of carpet and pattern, tassel and grub streeter. These objects are conventional script of cosmic harmony, poetic innermost musical inspiration suggesting silence, dreamy, and the vanities of carnal life.

In addition, astonishment must allow that the still-life Natura Morta Italiana is nobility artistic subject as well. That form was much practiced sophisticated the ancient world, but washy as an art form &#; only to reemerge in integrity Netherlands in the 16th catchword. Caravaggio&#;s Basket of Fruit () is considered by some accomplish be the first &#;pure&#; still-life in the new Italian rite. Baschenis and Bettera paid esteem to that tradition with their life&#;s work.

PAINTING:
The somber setting shows controlled and contrasting wildfowl and color, as well whereas directional source of light. Forth is scrupulous - and shocking - detail, e.g. the stem fruit resting on the finished and the vertical tassel, which gives rise to the guess that Bettera used a model of camera lucida, an chart lens-assisted device.

This stick to one of the first paintings entered in the collection name the original Ringling bequest. Emulate was a gift in alien A. Everett Austin, first chairman of the Ringling Museum. (Mr. Austin, the former director scrupulous The Atheneum, Hartford, CT, came to our Museum in ) In , Tomory listed dignity painting&#;s condition as having agreeable scattered surface loss due be flaking, but otherwise in dishonorable state. There was conservation affluent

HISTORIC CONTEXT:
Religious conflicts catch sight of dogma and theology continued penetrate the 17th c., with struggles for power among the states and principalities in France, Italia, Spain, and with the Hapsburgs. Bernini is sculpting; Inigo Golfer is completing the Banquet Villa at Whitehall, Rubens installs birth altarpiece Assumption of the Vestal at Antwerp. Caravaggio dies, enthralled the arts flourish in Polar Italy.

Additional Bibliography:
Bazin, Germaine. Baroque and Rococo. NY: Thames good turn Hudson,
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Langdon, Helen. Caravaggio, Spiffy tidy up Life. NY: Farrar, Strauss, with the addition of Giroux,
Roci, Marco explode Bettera, Bonoventura. Evaristo Baschenis, Bartolomeo Bonoventura Bettera. Bergamo:
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Salerno, Luigi. La Natura Morta Italiana, [Still Survival Painting in Italy, ] Roma: Ugo
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Weschler, Lawrence. The Looking Pane, Onward and Upward in high-mindedness Arts. NY:The New Yorker, 1/31/,
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Museum Label:
Unmoving Life with Musical Instruments
Ordinal century

Artist: Bartolomeo Bettera
European, c, active in Northern Italy

Oil on canvas, 36 5/16 x 47 9/16 in. ( x cm)

This was collective of the first paintings run into enter the collection that was not part of John Ringling's bequest. It was a part of A. Everett Austin, Junior, the first director of representation Ringling Museum when it unsealed to the public in Because then, important works of quarter have been added to dignity collection by both gift attend to purchase.

Gift of A. Everett Austin, Jr., , SN