Ängel med Psalterium

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

Angel with a psaltery

    Item location

  • Tensta kyrka
    Located on the east web of the chancel vaulting.

Description

Framed by stylized flowering vines, an angel sits playing a psaltery on one web of the vaulting.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Psaltery [3677] (five sided, three clearly straight, two appear to curve inward; about twenty strings and eight tuning pins are visible; two small round soundholes; played with two plectra, each held between the thumb on one side and the first two fingers on the other)

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) 273. ISBN 9197211702. RILM 1993-13916.

RIdIM record id

2339