Musicerande Lekare

Albertus Pictor (ca. 1440-after 1509) (follower or school of)


Item type:
mural
Date of creation:
1487
Technique / Medium:
mural al secco
Place of creation:
Uppland

Additional titles

Minstrels playing instruments

    Item location

  • Gryta kyrka
    Located on the eastern part of the south web of the vaulting.

Description

The field contains a minstrel wearing particoloured raiment with jester's ears and pellet bells on his cap. He is playing a bagpipe, an unusual instrument for a minstrel to play in a church painting in Uppland.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Bell [2381] (pellet bells)
Bagpipe [3746] (with a drone, chanter, and strongly flared opening at the bottom; the minstrel's right hand is at the upper end of the chanter and his left is at the opening.)

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) 139. ISBN 9197211702. RILM 1993-13916.

RIdIM record id

2493