Trofee van muziekinstrumenten en globe

Nijmegen, Elias van (1667-1755)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1700-1750
Height:
124.0 cm  (48 13/16 in.)
Width:
173.0 cm  (68 1/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on wood

Additional titles

Musical instruments and globe
Stilleven met muziekinstrumenten in een nis

    Item location

  • Museum Rotterdam
    [Museum inv. no.: 11057]

Description

A detailed still life of many musical instruments. A triangle is shown clearly including its method of suspension and pointed corners. The five jingling rings are a different color than the triangle.

Iconclass

48C7344(TRIANGLE)
41E1

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Triangle (with rings)
Viola da gamba [3604]
Horn (coiled, small)
Panpipe [4024]
Hurdy-gurdy [3305]
Lute [3394]
Bagpipe [3746]
Portative organ [2267]
Harp [3285]
Bells belt [6268]
Tambourine (with jingles)
Recorder [4039]
Oboe [4232]
Bassoon [3795]
Violin [3573]

Musical works

legible music notation
open book of music

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1
Wikimedia Commons
image link 3
Museum Rotterdam

Bibliographic references

Berry, Mark. Index of triangle iconography (Bowling Green, Kentucky: Living Sound Publications, 2017).

RIdIM record id

11393

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