Nicola Vicentino (obverse); Organ and cymbalum (reverse)

Vittoria, Allesandro (1525-1608) (attributed to)


Item type:
numismatic
Date of creation:
ca. 1555
Diameter:
5.1 cm  (2 in.)
Technique / Medium:
bronze
Place of creation:
Venezia (Italia)

    Item location

  • National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)
    [Museum inv. no.: 1957.14.1103]

Description

Portrait of the music theorist Vicentino, with organ and his invention the archicembalo (arcicembalo).

People as subjects

Vicentino, Nicola (1511-ca. 1576) (Composer portrait)

Iconclass

48C713
portrait of composer

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Portative organ [2267]
Archicembalo

RIdIM images


obverse

reverse

Image URLs

image link 1
obverse
image link 2
reverse

RIdIM record id

3987