Riddaren Bengt Jönsson Oxenstierna till Salsta

Rosenrod, Johannes (active ca. 1435-1440)


Item type:
mural
Date of creation:
1437
Technique / Medium:
mural al secco
Place of creation:
Tensta, Sverige

Additional titles

The knight Bengt Jönsson Oxenstierna of Salsta

    Item location

  • Tensta kyrka
    Located on the north wall.

Description

To the right of St. Catherine and her wheel there is a portrait of the donor of the paintings, Bengt Jönsson Oxenstierna, dressed in armour and a collar with two pellet bells, from which a long string of eight pellet bells in pairs hangs down his back; it ends in a large tassel and one single pellet bell.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Bell [2381] (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) 269-70. ISBN 9197211702. RILM 1993-13916.

RIdIM record id

2335