Madonna with Child and angels

Gentile da Fabriano (ca. 1370-1472)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

15th century

Height:

85.7 cm  (33 3/4 in.)

Width:

50.8 cm  (20 in.)

Technique / Medium:

tempera and gold on wood

School:

Italian (Umbria)

Description

Seated Madonna holding Jesus Child; on each side an angel playing an instrument, a harp on the left side and a portative organ on the right side. On the bottom five angels probably singing from music; the notation (on scroll) for the chant "Regina caeli laetare" (Easter antiphon) is legible.

People as subjects

St. Mary (Blessed Virgin)
Jesus Christ

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Harp [3285]
Portative organ [2267]

Musical works

Regina caeli laetarelegible music notation
Legible portion of "Regina coeli laetare": [R]egina c[o]eli l[a]etare alle luia [quia] quem meruist[i] portar[e] all[e]lluya [r]esur[rexit] sicut.

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Kraaz, Sarah Mahler. "Music for the Queen of Heaven in early fifteenth-century paintings", Music in art 39/1-2 (2014) 87-97. RILM 2014-9385.

RIdIM record id

3757