Två Trumpetblåsande Änglar

Unknown (Swedish)


Item type:
mural
Date of creation:
1623
Technique / Medium:
mural al secco
Place of creation:
Uppland

Additional titles

Two angels blowing trumpets

    Item location

  • Bladåker kyrka
    Located on the west side of the church. Possibly a fragment of a Last Judgement scene.

Description

The angels blow s-shaped trumpets of remarkable length with rings clearly marked on them.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Trumpet [4446] (S-Shaped)

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) 92. ISBN 9197211702. RILM 1993-13916.

Notes

For the general plan of the various motifs, the artist has, on the whole, followed the same tradition as the older Uppland schools, particularly Albertus Pictor, but for the individual motifs he has used a series of mid-sixteenth century woodcuts by Hans Brosamer.

RIdIM record id

2387