Saint Laurence

Unknown (Roman)


Item type:
manuscript, codex, scroll
Date of creation:
15th century
Technique / Medium:
tempera on parchment
School:
Roman school

    Item location

  • Archivio di Stato di Torino
    [Museum inv. no.: ms J. b. II. 4 (Messale Della Rovere - Pars III)]f. 137r

Description

In the capital letter, in the background of a landscape, Saint Laurence with the grill and a book in his left hand; in the edge, among vegetable interlacing, some putti, one of them playing the bagpipe.

People as subjects

St. Laurence (died 258)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Bagpipe [3746]

Bibliographic references

Santarelli, Cristina. “Iconografia musicale nei codici miniati delle biblioteche torinesi”, Miscellanea di studi (Istituto per i beni musicali in Piemonte) 6 (2006) 25-45.

RIdIM record id

3299