The Virgin and Child with angels

Giovanni del Biondo (active 1356, d. 1399)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
14th century
Height:
161.0 cm  (63 3/8 in.)
Width:
59.0 cm  (23 1/4 in.)
Technique / Medium:
tempera on panel

    Item location

  • National Gallery of Ireland
    [Museum inv. no.: NGI. 943]

Description

The Virgin is seated on a dias, holding the Child Jesus and flanked by angels. God the Father watches from above and in front kneel two angel musicians. One plays a vielle or mediaeval fiddle, the other plays a small portative organ.

People as subjects

Jesus Christ
St. Mary (Blessed Virgin)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Fiddle [3142] (Described in Boydell as six stringed vielle or mediaeval fiddle.)
Portative organ [2267] (single row of ten pipes)

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Boydell, Barra. Music and paintings in the National Gallery of Ireland (Dublin: The National Gallery of Ireland, 1985) 42-43. ISBN 0903162229. RILM 1985-00222.

RIdIM record id

2918