Virgin with the Child, saints, angels and a donor

Macrino d'Alba (active 1495-1515, died before 1528)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1499

Height:

145.0 cm  (57 1/16 in.)

Width:

253.0 cm  (99 5/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

tempera on wood

Place of creation:

Piemonte (Italia)

School:

Piedmontese School

Description

In the central board of the tryptich, the Virgin with the Child is crowned by two standing angels; two more angels are sitting on the steps of the throne, making music with rebec and bagpipe. In the side board are the saints Bernard from Clairvaux and John the Baptist and the donor Annibal Palaiologos.

People as subjects

St. Mary (Blessed Virgin) (Non-musician/dancer)
Jesus Christ (Non-musician/dancer)
St. John the Baptist (Non-musician/dancer)
St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090 or 1091-1153) (Non-musician/dancer)
Palaiologos, Annibal (Non-musician/dancer)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Rebec [3202]
Bagpipe [3746]

RIdIM images

Bibliographic references

Images of music: A cultural heritage. CD 1: Sacred music (Innsbruck, Germany: Institut für Musikwissenschaft, Universität Innsbruck, 2003).

Santarelli, Cristina. "Il motivo degli angeli musicanti nella pittura piemontese pre-gaudenziana", Le immagini della musica: Atti del seminario di iconografia musicale, metodi e pratica di catalogazione di materiali aventi rilevanza per la storia della arti e delle musica, ed. by Francesca Zannini (Roma: Palombi, 1996) 35-44. RILM 1996-7274.

RIdIM record id

2970