Evaristo Baschenis was an
Italian painter, the most prominent of a family of artists
recorded from 1400.
Baschenis was ordained c.
1647 and painted a few religious paintings, but his fame
rests chiefly on his beautifully poised and polished still
life paintings of muscial instruments.
Baschenis' predilection for
the subject may have been associated with the contemporary
fame of the Amati family of violin-makers of Cremona.