Thorberg panes with angels playing musical instruments (Wappenscheiben der Kartause Thorberg)

Unknown (Swiss)

Noll, Hans (d. 1493) (formerly attributed to)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

ca. 1501

Height:

98.0 cm  (38 9/16 in.)

Width:

65.0 cm  (25 9/16 in.)

measure of the entire glass pane

Technique / Medium:

glass, paint, silver stain, lead

Place of creation:

Bern (Schweiz)

Description

Angel playing tromba marina on the left (on the right, instead of the second musician angel, is the head of a figure from another glass pane to substitute lost glass). Pane heavily repaired.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Trumpet marine [3519]

RIdIM images

Bibliographic references

Kurmann-Schwarz, Brigitte. Die Glasmalereien des 15. bis 18. Jahrhunderts im Berner Münster. Corpus vitrearum medii aevi, Schweiz Bd. 4 (Bern: Benteli, 1998) 358-359, 451, fig. 44, fig. 287. ISBN 3716510610. ISBN 9783716510612. OCLC 40362898.

Mojon, Luc. Das Berner Münster. Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kantons Bern vol. 4 (Basel: Birkhäuser, 1960) 333 ff., fig. 327. OCLC 310086043. OCLC 25023423.

Notes

Research Project Hochschule Luzern-Musik, Switzerland (Antonio Baldassarre, Brigitte Bachmann-Geiser, Dorothea Baumann)
This pane belongs to a pair of nearly identical panes. See RIdIM item 3607.

RIdIM record id

3785