Vierge en Majesté entourée d'anges

Master of the Embroidered Foliage (fl. c. 1495–1500)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1460-1470

Height:

175.0 cm  (68 7/8 in.)

Width:

135.0 cm  (53 1/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on wood

School:

Flemish

Additional titles

Description

Depiction of Saint Mary with the Child surrounded by six angels, three singing, one playing lute, one playing recorder, and one playing fiddle.

People as subjects

Jesus Christ (Non-musician/dancer)
St. Mary (Blessed Virgin) (Non-musician/dancer)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Fiddle [3142]
Lute [3394]
Recorder [4039]

Musical works

legible music notation
The angel holding the book appears to be singing, as does one other (perhaps two) of the angels looking over his shoulder).

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Thibault, Geneviève. "L`oratoire de château de Montreuil-Bellay ", Memorie e contributi alla musica dal medioevo all'età moderna offerti a F. Ghisi nel settantesimo compleanno (1910 - 1971). Quadrivium 12 (Bologna: A.M.I.S., 1971) 209-213. RILM 1976-4830.

Fischer, Peter. " Music in paintings of the Low countries in the 16th and 17th centuries ", Sonorum speculum 50/51 (Amsterdam, Donemus, 1972) 13, n° 9.

Catalogue sommaire illustré des peintures du musée du Louvre, t. I, 1979, p. 85 et 165

Notes

Le motet a été composé vers 1460-1470. Ce même motet figure sur au moins deux autres peintures : à la voûte de l'oratoire du château de Montreuil Bellay (France, Indre et Loire) peinte vers 1485-1488 et sur une Assomption Peinte par le maître de la légende de sainte Lucie (Washington, National Gallery of Art, Kress Collection).

RIdIM record id

12