Marie Kröning med Musicerande Änglar

Albertus Pictor (ca. 1440-after 1509) (workshop of)


Item type:
mural
Date of creation:
late 15th century
Technique / Medium:
mural al secco
Place of creation:
Uppland

Additional titles

The coronation of the Virgin with angels playing instruments

    Item location

  • Almunge Kyrka
    Located in the east web of the chancel vaulting.

Description

Christ and the Virgin Mary are flanked by two angels, the one nearest Mary playing a lute. The other angel plays a fiddle.

People as subjects

St. Mary (Blessed Virgin)
Jesus Christ

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394] (round body and a neck with the pegbox thrown back at an angle; central soundhole; seven strings and seven visible tuning pegs; no frets are visible; the lute is played with a plectrum)
Fiddle [3142] (guitar-shaped body; 3-4 strings, a bridge, tailpiece and flat pegboard with three visible rear-sagittal tuning pegs; no visible soundholes; played with a thick, arched bow held a ways up from the end of the stick.)

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) 84. ISBN 9197211702. RILM 1993-13916.

RIdIM record id

2361