Allegory of music

Unknown (Italian)

Item type:

sculpture

Date of creation:

ca. 1500

Height:

11.5 cm  (4 1/2 in.)

Width:

7.2 cm  (2 13/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

bronze

Description

A standing man holds an animal horn in his left hand. Unplayed instruments adorn a tree to the left of the figure. From the bottom: a lira da braccio with a curved bow, a trumpet marine, panpipes, a kithara, two wind instruments, a pair of cymbals. Bottom right: an s-shaped trumpet leans against a flaming anvil.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Horn [4118] (no fingerholes)
Lira da braccio [3181] (leaf-shaped pegbox, 3 frontal pegs)
Trumpet marine [3519] (carved-head pegbox)
Panpipe [4024] (4 pipes)
Kithara [4940]
Cymbals [2451]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

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RIdIM record id

2152