The Nativity with the Annunciation to the shepherds

Master of the Dominican Effigies (active ca. 1328-1350)


Item type:
miniature
Date of creation:
ca. 1340
Height:
36.5 cm  (14 3/8 in.)
Width:
27.1 cm  (10 11/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
miniature on vellum
Place of creation:
Firenze (Italia)

    Item location

  • National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)
    [Museum inv. no.: 1949.5.87]

Description

Leaf from a choir book (Laudario). Includes a shepherd holding wind instrument (short, four fingerholes) and angel blowing straight trumpet (border).

Iconclass

73B14
annunciation of Christ's birth to the shepherds (and/or shepherdesses) at night; a host of singing angels in the air
73B13
Mary, Joseph and the new-born Christ (Nativity)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

End-blown trumpet [6556]
End-blown flute [3940]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

3887