Musicerande Valvängel med Luta

Unknown (Swedish)


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

Additional titles

Angel playing a lute

    Item location

  • Börje kyrka
    Located on the west web of the vaulting.

Description

An angel plucks a drop-shaped lute with a plectrum.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394] (with a rose, a bridge, and a pegbox which is thrown back at an angle; seven strings and seven, possibly eight tuning pegs and six frets can be seen.)

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) 101. ISBN 9197211702. RILM 1993-13916.

RIdIM record id

2393