Madonna and Child enthroned with six angels

Jacopo di Cione (born ca. 1320, died before 1400)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

ca. 1370–1375

Height:

120.7 cm  (47 1/2 in.)

Width:

71.9 cm  (28 5/16 in.)

Depth:

3.0 cm  (1 3/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

tempera on panel

Additional titles

Description

Scene includes two music-making angels, one playing portative organ (organo, organetto, positivo, portativo), and one playing fiddle (gighe, vidula, vielle, viuola, viol)

People as subjects

Jesus Christ
St. Mary (Blessed Virgin)

Iconclass

11F4211
Mary sitting or enthroned, the Christ-child in front of her, standing in her lap (or in front of her bosom)
11G21
angels singing, making music

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Fiddle [3142]
Portative organ [2267]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Stinson, John. Florentine Trecento Musical Iconography and Contemporary Musical Performance. See documents referencing fiddle (gighe, vidula, vielle, viuola, viol) [D1377, D1381, D1383, D1384, D1408, D1413, D1469, D1631, D1639, D1644, D1652, D967, D983, D1155, D1559, D1156, D1560, D1157, D1561, D1158, D1159, D1563, D1160, D1564, D1161, D1565, D1162, D1566, D1163, D1567, D1164, D1568, D1165, D1569, D1166, D1570, D116] and portative organ (organo, organetto, positivo, portativo) [????????].

Brown, Howard Mayer. "A corpus of trecento pictures with musical subject matter. I/2: Pictures signed by or attributed to particular artists or their followers: Deodatus to Meo da Siena", Imago musicae II (1985) 200, no. 238. RILM 1987-08785.

RIdIM record id

422