Ängel med Luta och Ängel med Nyckelharpa

Eghil (active ca. 1470-1500)


Item type:
mural
Date of creation:
ca. 1500-1520
Technique / Medium:
mural al secco
Place of creation:
Tolfta

Additional titles

Angel with a lute and angel with a keyed fiddle

    Item location

  • Tolfta kyrka
    Located on the vaulting to the southwest.

Description

An angel plays a lute without a plectrum. Another angel holds a keyed fiddle (nyckelharp) in a horizontal position and plays it with an arched bow.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394] (pear-shaped body with a rose and a bridge; four or five frets can be discerned on the neck; five strings can be seen but there are eight visible tuning pegs.)
Nyckelharpa [3193] (guitar-shaped body and round, carefully painted soundhole with a rose; there are four strings and eight, possibly nine, keys can be seen along the neck; no tuning pegs can be seen on the rounded pegboard, which is thrown back at a slight angle; on the handle, there is a pin that might be the nut to which the hair is fastened.)

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) 45-46, 285-86. ISBN 9197211702. RILM 1993-13916.

Notes

"Eghil" is used as an anonymous artist distinction rather than a specific man's name.

RIdIM record id

2241