Minerva visits the muses

Balen, Hendrick van, I (1575-1632) (attributed to)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

early 17th century

Height:

69.0 cm  (27 3/16 in.)

Width:

209.0 cm  (82 5/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on linden board

Description

Clavichord or virginal lid painting; two instruments represented in border (bagpipe left, and wind, right), the others as part of outdoor scene. Nine muses are playing or holding instruments, and other instruments are lying on the ground.

Iconclass

92C251
Minerva visits the Muses on Mount Helicon to see the fountain Hippocrene, which Pegasus had just brought forth

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Viol [3597]
Lute [3394]
Lyre [3501]
Cornett [3868]
Natural trumpet [4419]
Violoncello [3582]
Cylindrical drum [2532]
Cittern [3106]
Hurdy-gurdy [3305]
Sackbut (trombone) [4364]
Kit [3571]
Shawm [4258]
Lira da braccio [3181]
Bagpipe [3746]
Wind instruments [3730]
Guitar [3237] (depiction unclear, possibly a viol)

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

Bialostocki, Jan. Catalogue of paintings foreign schools (Warsaw: Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, 1969) vol. 1, nr. 39.

RIdIM record id

247