Ängel med Blåsinstrument och Ängel med fiddla

Roslag Master (active late 15th century) (attributed to)


Item type:
mural
Date of creation:
after 1469
Technique / Medium:
mural al secco
Place of creation:
Uppland

Additional titles

Angel with wind instrument and angel with fiddle

    Item location

  • Hållnäs kyrka
    Located to the southwest on the vaulting of the chancel.

Description

On the left, an angel plays a wind instrument with a long straight tube, somewhat conical, with a slightly flared opening. On the right, An angel plays a fiddle with the body rested against the angel's chest in a horizontal position.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Trumpet [4446]
Fiddle [3142] (guitar-shaped body; round soundhole and a tailpiece; possibly a bridge between the tailpiece and the soundhole; four strings, played with a sharply arched bow.)

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) 162-63. ISBN 9197211702. RILM 1993-13916.

RIdIM record id

2358