Virgin and Child enthroned with nineteen angels

Spinello Aretino (born 1350 or 1352, died 1410)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1384
Height:
168.5 cm  (66 5/16 in.)
Width:
90.0 cm  (35 7/16 in.)
Frame: 241.4 x 102.9 x 13.1 cm. Upper frame: 198.6 x 102.9 x 7.7 cm. Lower frame: 44 x 104.3 x 13.1 cm.
Technique / Medium:
tempera on panel

    Item location

  • Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum
    [Museum inv. no.: 1917.3]

Description

Mary seated with young Jesus surrounded by a group of nineteen angels, including three that are singing and one that is singing and playing the fiddle.

People as subjects

St. Mary (Blessed Virgin)
Jesus Christ

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Fiddle [3142]

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Collection of Medieval and Renaissance Paintings, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1919) 46-53.

RIdIM record id

1501