Forthcoming lecture – Vanitas Imagery in Still Lifes with Musical Instruments: the Case of Evaristo Baschenis

UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy in association with UCD Foundation for Italian Studies are proud to host a lecture delivered by Consultant Curator of Fine Arts at the Museum of the Bible, Washington DC, Dr Corinna Ricasoli:

‘Vanitas Imagery in Still Lifes with Musical Instruments: the Case of Evaristo Baschenis’

“Vanity of vanities! All is vanity!” What does this verse mean? Where does it come from? What were its repercussions on art? This lecture will focus on the theme of vanitas, and on the popularity of the vanitas-still life genre in seventeenth-century art. Particularly, it will examine the work of the Italian painter Evaristo Baschenis (1617-1677) and the vanitas imagery present in his remarkable still lifes of musical instruments.

Time: Wednesday 25 April at 7.00pm.

Venue: Theatre N, Newman Building, UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4.

All welcome.

This lecture relates to Dr Ricasoli’s role as curator of the Museum of the Bible’s current international exhibition, The Living Dead: Ecclesiastes Through Art, which closes on 30 April 2018. For more see:

https://ucdarthistoryma.wordpress.com/2017/11/21/the-living-dead-ecclesiastes-through-art-museum-of-the-bible-washington-dc/