Mary Magdalene playing the lute

Master of the Female Half-Lengths (active 1st half of 16th century)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1520-1540

Height:

43.0 cm  (16 15/16 in.)

Width:

30.0 cm  (11 13/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Place of creation:

Flanders

School:

Flemish

Description

A young woman seated beside a window plays the lute reading from a part-book; the vessel of ointment laying on the table permits her identification as Mary Magdalene. A lute case is hanging on the wall.

People as subjects

St. Mary Magdalene (Musician)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394]

Musical works

Si j'aime mon amylegible music notationThe chanson appears in other paintings with the same subject (Hamburg, Kunsthalle; Bonn, Landesmuseum; Courtrai, Coll. De Witte; Rotterdam, Boymans-Beuningen Museum)

RIdIM images

Bibliographic references

Santarelli, Cristina. "Dalla 'musica instrumentis constituta' alla 'musica mundana': Tipologie della Maddalena penitente tra Cinque e Seicento", La musica al tempo di Caravaggio: Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Milano, Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, 29 settembre 2010 (Roma: Gangemi, 2012) 164-173. ISBN 9788849223927.

Santarelli, Cristina. "Considerazioni su alcuni dipinti a carattere musicale delle collezioni torinesi", RIdIM newsletter 18/2 (1993) 53-59. RILM 1993-13927.

RIdIM record id

2931