Ängel som spelar luta

Albertus Pictor (ca. 1440-after 1509)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1485

Technique / Medium:

fresco

Place of creation:

Uppland

Additional titles

Description

An angel plays a lute with a plectrum.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394] (pear-shaped belly, round sound hole with a chequered rose; strings on the neck are difficult to discern; the pegbox, which is thrown back at an angle, has seven clearly shown tuning pegs.)

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) 183-84. ISBN 9197211702. RILM 1993-13916.

RIdIM record id

188