Yttersta domen, helvetesgapet, säckpipeblåsande djävul

Albertus Pictor (ca. 1440-after 1509) (follower or school of)


Item type:
mural
Date of creation:
1487
Technique / Medium:
mural al secco
Place of creation:
Uppland

Additional titles

The Last Judgement, Mouth of Hell, devil playing bagpipe

    Item location

  • Gryta kyrka
    Part of interior decoration of Gryta church on the west web of the vaulting. Paintings were restored 1931.

Description

Above a large monster which is devouring a host of people sits a small devil with three additional mock heads on its body, playing a bagpipe with flared chanter and a long conical drone.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Bagpipe [3746] (with flared chanter and long, conical drone)

Image URLs

image link 1

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) 141-42. ISBN 9197211702. RILM 1993-13916.

RIdIM record id

22