Virgin with the Child, saints and angels

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

Bergognone, Ambrogio (ca. 1460-1523)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1496

Technique / Medium:

tempera on wood

tempera on wood

Place of creation:

Piemonte (Italia)

School:

Piedmontese School

Description

The altarpiece hosts in the middle board the Virgin with the Child and four angels, two of them playing rebec and bagpipe; in the side wings are the saints Hugh from Langres and Hugh from Canterbury.

People as subjects

St. Mary (Blessed Virgin) (Non-musician/dancer)
Jesus Christ (Non-musician/dancer)
St. Hugh of Langres (Non-musician/dancer)
St. Hugh of Canterbury (Non-musician/dancer)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Rebec [3202]
Bagpipe [3746]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

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.

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

RIdIM record id

2972