Ängel med Stråkinstrument

Tierp Master (active ca. 1460-1470)


Item type:
mural
Date of creation:
ca. 1460-1470
Technique / Medium:
mural al secco
Place of creation:
Uppland
School:
Tierp School

Additional titles

Angel with a bowed instrument

    Item location

  • Tierp kyrka
    Located on the southern part of the west web of the chancel vaulting.

Description

The angel plays a bowed instrument which he holds in a vertical position with the neck upwards.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Fiddle [3142] (played with a short, arched bow as if playing a gamba; the body narrows toward the neck and has slightly incurved sides, a tailpiece and four strings, no bridge is visible; the neck ends in a pegbox thrown back at an angle and there are four tuning pegs.)

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) 277. ISBN 9197211702. RILM 1993-13916.

RIdIM record id

2320