Daniel och den Babyloniska Draken

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

Daniel and the Babylonian dragon

    Item location

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

Description

The motif is rather difficult to interpret. It is possibly Daniel and the Babylonian Dragon with the god Bel disguised as a minstrel playing a pipe.

People as subjects

Daniel (Biblical figure)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Pipa [3413] (slightly conical with visible finger holes on each side of the minstrel's hand.)

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) 140-42. ISBN 9197211702. RILM 1993-13916.

RIdIM record id

2496