Profet med Bjällror i Kragen

Örjan the painter (active ca. 1520-1530)


Item type:
mural
Date of creation:
1520-1530
Technique / Medium:
mural al secco
Place of creation:
Valö (Sverige)

Additional titles

Prophet with pellet bells on his collar

    Item location

  • Valö kyrka
    Located on the west web, northern spandrel; one of seven musical motifs painted in the chancel.

Description

Out of the perianth of a flower at the bottom of the spandrel grows a figure holding a banderole on which can be discerned the word "profete." He is wearing a large, broad-brimmed hat and a wide mantle from the broad collar of which hang three visible pellet bells.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Bell [2381] (3 pellet bells)

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) 306-08. ISBN 9197211702. RILM 1993-13916.

Notes

Formerly attributed to Anders Martinsson (Andreas Martini).

RIdIM record id

2218