Bjällerprydd Hovdam i Drottingen av Sabas Följe

Albertus Pictor (ca. 1440-after 1509)


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

    Item location

  • Husby-Sjutolft kyrka
    Located on the east wall.

Description

The Queen of Sheba kneels before King Solomon; she is bearing gifts. Behind her is her train, symbolized by two elegantly dressed women, the right of whom carries a long row of fourteen cone-like objects, possibly pellet bells.

People as subjects

Sheba, Queen of
Solomon, King of Israel

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Bell [2381] (pellet bells)

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) 154. ISBN 9197211702. RILM 1993-13916.

RIdIM record id

2532