Himmelsk Fröjd och Jordisk Glädje: Dans till Tonerna av en Säckpipa i Bebådelsen för Herdarna

Albertus Pictor (ca. 1440-after 1509)


Item type:
mural
Date of creation:
ca. 1480
Technique / Medium:
mural al secco
Place of creation:
Uppland

Additional titles

Celestial joy and earthly pleasures: Dancing to the notes of a bagpipe in the angel's announcement to the shepherds

    Item location

  • Husby-Sjutolft kyrka
    Located on the north wall.

Description

A shepherd, in the foreground, plays a bagpipe while others dance.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Bagpipe [3746] (cylindrical chanter with three or four visible finger-holes and a strongly flared 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) 153. ISBN 9197211702. RILM 1993-13916.

RIdIM record id

2531