Les arts libéraux, L'annonce aux bergers détail du portail ouest, porte sud de la cathédrale de Chartres

Unknown (French)

Item type:

architectural object

Date of creation:

1145-1150

Place of creation:

Chartres

School:

French

Description

Four musicians, two men playing psaltery, one man playing bagpipes, and one woman playing cymbalum while holding a fiddle and dulcimer. The fiddle has an 8 shape (vièle en 8).

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Cimbalom [3633]
Fiddle [3142]
Bell [2381]
Bagpipe [3746]
Psaltery [3677]
Dulcimer [3644]

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Foster, Genette. The iconology of musical instruments and musical performance in thirteenth-century french manuscript illuminations (Ph.D. diss., City University of New York, 1977) 105, fig. 13. RILM 1977-136.

Seebass, Tilman. Musikdarstellung und Psalterillustration im frühen Mittelalter. Studien, ausgehend von einer Ikonologie der Handschrift Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fonds latin 1118 (Bern: Francke, 1973). RILM 1976-8575.

Terrien, Samuel. The iconography of Job through the centuries: Artists as biblical interpreters (University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996) 107-108, fig. 54. ISBN 0271015284. RILM 1996-21573.

RIdIM record id

17