Madonna del pilar

González Velázquez, Antonio, the elder (1723-1793)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1750-1755
Height:
105.5 cm  (41 9/16 in.)
Width:
65.3 cm  (25 11/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

Additional titles

Saint James' vision of the Virgin of the pillar

    Item location

  • Art Institute of Chicago
    [Museum inv. no.: 1978.425]A. A. McKay Fund

Description

An angel playing a transverse flute, a cherub holding a book of music, and an angel playing a viol.

People as subjects

St. Mary (Blessed Virgin)
St. James the Greater

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Flute [3955]
Viol [3597]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Owens, Margareth Boyer. Art Institute of Chicago. RIdIM/RCMI inventory of music iconography, no. 2. Edited by Terence Ford (New York: Research Center for Musical Iconography, 1987) 278pa88. RILM 1988-275.

RIdIM record id

1709