David Hälsas med Klockklang, Triangel och Strängaspel

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

David is greeted with bells, triangle, and string instrument

    Item location

  • Tolfta kyrka
    Located in the eastern part of the south web.

Description

Five elegantly clad women, the Daughters of Israel, greet David on his return with the head of Goliath. The three foremost women play a handbell, a triangle, and a string instrument (perhaps a cittern or quintern). The two women behind them might be singing or clapping their hands.

People as subjects

David, King of Israel

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Handbell [2404] (with visible clapper and t-shaped handle)
Triangle (with rings) (slightly concave sides; three rattle-rings; it is suspended from a ring threaded on to the little finger of her left hand)

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, 286-88. ISBN 9197211702. RILM 1993-13916.

Notes

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

RIdIM record id

2263