St. Martin is knighted

Simone Martini (ca. 1284-1344)


Item type:
mural
Date of creation:
1320-1325
Technique / Medium:
fresco
Place of creation:
Assisi (Italia)

    Item location

  • Cappella di San Martino (Assisi)

Description

A group of musicians and singers accompany this historical event: the knighting of the young St. Martin. One musician is playing two recorders and another is playing a gittern.

People as subjects

St. Martin of Tours (ca. 316-ca. 397)

Iconclass

11H(MARTIN)21
the knighting of St. Martin

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Recorder [4039]
Gittern [3365]

RIdIM images


Detail of musicians

Image URLs

image link 1
Web Gallery of Art (entire scene)
image link 2
Web Gallery of Art (detail of musicians)
image link 4
Wikimedia Commons

Bibliographic references

Ember, Ildikó. Music in painting: Music as a symbol in Renaissance and Baroque painting. Trans. by Mary and András Boros-Kazai (Budapest: Corvina, 1984) plate 4. ISBN 9631317234. RILM 1984-6813.

RIdIM record id

3432