Herdarnas Tillbedjan med Lutspelande Ängel

Master Gielisz (active ca. 1515)

Master of the Antwerp Crucifixion (active ca. 1520)


Item type:
sculpture
Date of creation:
ca. 1515
Technique / Medium:
painted and gilded wood
Place of creation:
Antwerpen
School:
Antwerp Mannerism

Additional titles

The adoration of the shepherds, with angel and lute

    Item location

  • Valö kyrka
    Located in the bottom field of the left-wing of the triptych.

Description

A group of inward facing people make gestures of adoration toward the Christ child (now lost). At the foot of the scene, on the right, is a very small angel with a lute. The lute is held in the right hand by the neck of the instrument.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394] (vaulted back, three carved strings)

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) 310-11. ISBN 9197211702. RILM 1993-13916.

Notes

Anonymous Master of the Antwerp Crucifixion may be Adriaen van Overbeke, grouped by Max Friedländer with the Antwerp Mannerists. He may have run the workshop where Master Gielisz was a wood carver.

RIdIM record id

2223