Marie krönig

Rosenrod, Johannes (active ca. 1435-1440)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1437
Technique / Medium:
mural al secco
Place of creation:
Tensta, Sverige

Additional titles

The coronation of the Virgin

    Item location

  • Tensta kyrka
    Located on the north wall to the east of the window.

Description

The main motif, Christ crowning the Virgin, was destroyed when a new window was let into the wall, but two angels playing instruments remain: one plays a fiddle, the other a lute.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Fiddle [3142] (visible ribs and slightly incurved sides; flat pegboard set at an oblique angle; round soundhole and four visible strings; played with an extremely arched bow.)
Lute [3394] (egg-shaped body with bridge and a pegbox that slopes backward; played with a plectrum.)

Bibliographic references

Barth Magnus, Ingebjørg and Birgit Kjellström. Musikmotiv i svensk kyrkokonst: Uppland fram till 1625 = Musical Motifs in Swedish Church Art: The Region of Uppland up to 1625. Trans. by Michael Stevens (Stockholm: Svenska RIdIM-kommittén; Statens musiksamlingar, 1993) 270. ISBN 9197211702. RILM 1993-13916.

RIdIM record id

1364