L'incoronazione della vergine

Raphael (1483-1520)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1502-1504
Height:
272.0 cm  (107 1/16 in.)
Width:
165.0 cm  (64 15/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
tempera on canvas
Place of creation:
Perugia

Additional titles

Oddi altar-piece
Crowning of the Virgin

    Item location

  • Musei Vaticani
    Pinacoteca[Museum inv. no.: MV_40334_0_0]Painting is "Tempera grassa" on wood, transferred to canvas.

Description

Group of angels performing while Mary is being crowned Queen of Heaven. One angel is playing tambourine, one is playing lira da braccio, one is playing rebec, and one is playing a type of stringed instrument.

People as subjects

Jesus Christ
St. Mary (Blessed Virgin)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Tambourine [2746]
Lira da braccio [3181]
Rebec [3202]
Stringed instruments [3101] (Looks rather like a violin or viola, but neck is truncated)

Image URLs

image link 1
Web Gallery of Art image
image link 2
Musei Vaticani image

RIdIM record id

1432