Lekare med Fiddla

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:
Stockholm

Additional titles

Minstrel with a fiddle

    Item location

  • Bromma kyrka
    Located on the stellar vaulting.

Description

A minstrel walks with a bowed instrument in his left hand, the curved bow of which is hanging on his left shoulder diagonally across his body. The instrument, which is probably supposed to represent a fiddle, is sketchily drawn.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Fiddle [3142] (Only a few diverging lines, running along the length of the instrument, can be seen: 3 on the neck and 4-5 on the body.)

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) 95. ISBN 9197211702. RILM 1993-13916.

RIdIM record id

2389