{"id":2643,"date":"2020-06-15T15:51:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T15:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/collezioni\/still-life-with-musical-instruments\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T16:11:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:11:26","slug":"still-life-with-musical-instruments","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/collections\/still-life-with-musical-instruments\/","title":{"rendered":"Still life with musical instruments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"gutenslider-kvw854fwx\" class=\"wp-block-eedee-block-gutenslider gs-frontend content-change alignnone adaptive-height arrow-style-1 arrow-position-sides arrow-mb-none arrows-lg arrows-md arrows-sm dot-style-1 dots-lg dots-md dots-sm dot-position-bottom is-position-center-center mb-none lg-zoom-icon wrap-auto-height\" data-parallax-direction=\"down\" data-parallax-amount=\"1.3\" data-lg-transition=\"lg-slide\" data-hash=\"\" ><div class=\"eedee-swiper-outer\" style=\"--gutenslider-min-height: 50vh;--gutenslider-arrow-size: 30px;--gutenslider-dot-size: 25px;--gutenslider-arrow-color: #ffffff;--gutenslider-dot-color: #ffffff;--gutenslider-padding-y-mobile: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-x-mobile: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-y-tablet: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-x-tablet: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-y-desktop: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-x-desktop: 40px;--gutenslider-bg-image: url();--gutenslider-min-height-md: 50vh;--gutenslider-min-height-sm: 50vh;--gutenslider-padding-x: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-x-md: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-x-sm: 20px;--gutenslider-padding-y: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-y-md: 40px;--gutenslider-padding-y-sm: 20px;--gutenslider-arrow-size-md: 30px;--gutenslider-arrow-size-sm: 30px;--gutenslider-dot-size-md: 25px;--gutenslider-dot-size-sm: 25px;--gutenslider-arrow-bg-color: transparent;--gutenslider-arrow-hover-color: #eeeeee;--gutenslider-arrow-bg-hover-color: transparent;--gutenslider-arrow-x-offset: 10px;--gutenslider-arrow-x-offset-md: 10px;--gutenslider-arrow-x-offset-sm: 10px;--gutenslider-arrow-y-offset: 0px;--gutenslider-arrow-y-offset-md: 0px;--gutenslider-arrow-y-offset-sm: 0px;--gutenslider-arrow-x-spacing: 0px;--gutenslider-dot-y-offset: 10px;--gutenslider-dot-y-offset-md: 10px;--gutenslider-dot-y-offset-sm: 10px;--gutenslider-margin-x: 0px;--gutenslider-margin-x-md: 0px;--gutenslider-margin-x-sm: 0px;--gutenslider-margin-y: 0px;--gutenslider-margin-y-md: 0px;--gutenslider-margin-y-sm: 0px;--gutenslider-divider-top: 60px;--gutenslider-divider-bottom: 60px;--gutenslider-lightgallery-bg: #ffffff;--gutenslider-lightgallery-font: #000000;--gs-first-pos: 50% 50%;--gs-gap-vertical: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) );--gs-gap-horizontal: var( --wp--style--gallery-gap-default, var( --gallery-block--gutter-size, var( --wp--style--block-gap, 0.5em ) ) );\"><div class=\"gutenslider-divider-top\" style=\"color:#fff;\"><\/div><div class=\"swiper\" data-settings='{\"autoplay\":{\"delay\":3000,\"pauseOnMouseEnter\":true,\"disableOnInteraction\":false},\"speed\":700,\"direction\":\"horizontal\",\"autoHeight\":\"\",\"loop\":true,\"centeredSlides\":true,\"spaceBetween\":0,\"slidesPerView\":1,\"slidesPerGroup\":1,\"effect\":\"slide\",\"coverflowEffect\":{\"rotate\":30,\"slideShadows\":false,\"depth\":100,\"stretch\":50,\"modifier\":1},\"fadeEffect\":{\"crossFade\":true},\"zoom\":\"\",\"navigation\":{\"nextEl\":\"#gutenslider-kvw854fwx .eedee-gutenslider-next\",\"prevEl\":\"#gutenslider-kvw854fwx .eedee-gutenslider-prev\"},\"pagination\":{\"type\":\"bullets\",\"clickable\":true,\"dynamicBullets\":false,\"el\":\"#gutenslider-kvw854fwx .eedee-gutenslider-pagination\"},\"pauseOnHover\":\"1\",\"watchSlidesProgress\":true,\"watchSlidesVisibility\":true,\"settingsMd\":{\"autoHeight\":\"\",\"slidesPerView\":1,\"slidesPerGroup\":1,\"spaceBetween\":0,\"loop\":true},\"settingsLg\":{\"autoHeight\":\"1\",\"slidesPerView\":1,\"slidesPerGroup\":1,\"spaceBetween\":0,\"loop\":true},\"hasLg\":true,\"hasLgCounter\":true,\"isFullScreen\":false,\"arrowsFollowMouse\":false,\"lgTitle\":\"none\",\"lgCaption\":\"none\",\"lgThumbnails\":true,\"lgZoomEnabled\":false,\"keyboard\":{\"keyboard\":{\"enabled\":true,\"onlyInViewport\":true}},\"hashNavigation\":false,\"dividers\":false}'><div class=\"swiper-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"swiper-slide wp-block-eedee-block-gutenslide is-position-center-center ed-bg-image\" style=\"--ed-vw:300;--ed-vh:205;\" data-hash=\"\"><div class=\"eedee-background-div bg-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"699\" class=\"wp-image-4512\" src=\"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/d303-copia-1024x699.jpg\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"object-fit: cover; 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object-position: 50% 50%;\"  data-caption=\"d303\" data-title=\"Natura morta con strumenti musicali\" srcset=\"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/d303-1024x694.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/d303-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/d303-768x520.jpg 768w, https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/d303-215x146.jpg 215w, https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/d303-50x34.jpg 50w, https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/d303-111x75.jpg 111w, https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/d303-960x650.jpg 960w, https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/d303-708x480.jpg 708w, https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/d303.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width:767px) 480px, (max-width:1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><div class=\"eedee-background-div__overlay\" style=\"opacity:1;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"slide-content\">\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center gutenslider-content-initial has-larger-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><button class=\"eedee-gutenslider-nav eedee-gutenslider-prev\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\"><circle class=\"bg\" cx=\"13\" cy=\"12\" r=\"11\" \/><path fill=\"none\" d=\"M0 0h24v24H0z\"\/><path class=\"arrow\" d=\"M10.828 12l4.95 4.95-1.414 1.414L8 12l6.364-6.364 1.414 1.414z\"\/><\/svg><\/button><button class=\"eedee-gutenslider-nav eedee-gutenslider-next\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\"><circle class=\"bg\" cx=\"11\" cy=\"12\" r=\"11\" \/><path fill=\"none\" d=\"M0 0h24v24H0z\"\/><path class=\"arrow\" d=\"M13.172 12l-4.95-4.95 1.414-1.414L16 12l-6.364 6.364-1.414-1.414z\"\/><\/svg><\/button><div class=\"eedee-gutenslider-pagination\"><\/div><div class=\"gutenslider-divider-bottom \" style=\"color:#fff;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">BARTOLOMEO BETTERA<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Bergamo, 1639 &#8211; doc. until 1699<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Still life with musical instruments<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">oil on canvas, cm 162&#215;244<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As Lanfranco Ravelli emphasizes in his study devoted to the painting, this still life is a valuable formerly unknown trace of the mature phase of Bartolomeo Bettera\u2019s career, who was the greatest specialist in still-life compositions with musical instruments after his fellow Bergamasque Evaristo Baschenis (1617-1677). The latter was certainly studied by Bettera, who repeatedly demonstrates his knowledge of a dependence upon the Bergamasque master. However, as the scholar Alberto Cottino argued in the past, Bettera \u201cwas a real artist, endowed with his own figurative language\u201d, revealing a culture \u201cwhich appears more modern and eclectic than the more traditional and Lombard one\u201d of Baschenis (in \u201cBartolomeo Bettera. La sonata Barocca\u201d, catalogue of the exhibition curated by A. Cottino, Bergamo, 2008, p. 6).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In our still life, Bettera depicted an extraordinary array of stringed instruments, a cabinet, a harpsichord, and musical scores, framed by a sumptuous drapery and a rare instrument, a wing-shaped viola, which appears in many other paintings by the Bergamasque painter. Particularly impressive is the abundance of objects represented, piled up and balanced precariously, which, according to Ravelli, represent \u201cthe unsettling metaphor of vanitas, the inevitable dissolution of earthly seductions into nothingness\u201d a concept undoubtedly reinforced by the presence of two lit candles and a lantern \u2013 this a quite uncommon presence in Bettera\u2019s work. Remarkable for its unusual, indeed monumental dimensions, the canvas was likely painted, as Ravelli suggests, in the final phase of the artist\u2019s life, about which unfortunately very little biographical information survives. It likely dates from after his encounter with Roman painting, an experience that prompted Bettera toward a \u201cgrand manner\u201d of which this work \u201cconstitutes a summa\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>PUBLICATIONS:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cDue aggiunte al catalogo di Bartolomeo Bettera\u201d in \u201cLa rivista di Bergamo\u201d, edited by Lanfranco Ravelli, Grafica e Arte Editore, Bergamo, 2016, no. 88, pp. 64-67.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2630,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"portfolio-types":[46],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/2643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio-types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antico.tornabuoniarte.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio-types?post=2643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}