Musicerande Lekare

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

Minstrels playing instruments

    Item location

  • Bromma kyrka
    Located in the north west ray of the vaulting.

Description

A minstrel walks along with a wind instrument held in his left hand. Suspended on a band round his neck is a tabor which he beats with a large drumstick. The minstrel in the adjoining ray also carries some sort of wind instrument.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Cornett [3868] (gently curved, slightly conical)
Cylindrical drum [2532]
Bagpipe [3746] (a long, narrow pipe attached to a bladder or bellows)

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) 96-97. ISBN 9197211702. RILM 1993-13916.

Notes

This painting, like all those at Bromma, has been heavily restored and is therefore of little value as source material for musical iconography.

RIdIM record id

2391