A concert

Costa, Lorenzo di Ottavio (ca. 1460-1535)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1485-1495
Height:
95.3 cm  (37 1/2 in.)
Width:
75.6 cm  (29 3/4 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on wood
School:
Italian

    Item location

  • National Gallery (London)
    [Museum inv. no.: NG 2486]

Description

Three musicians singing with an open music book lying on a table in the front of them. The man in the middle is playing the lute and the other two musicians are singing. A rebec and a recorder lie at the edge of the table.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394]
Rebec [3202]
Recorder [4039]

Musical works

One open book of music resting on a closed book.illegible music notation

RIdIM images


Photo © The National Gallery, London

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Hatter, Jane. "Col tempo: Musical time, aging and sexuality in 16th-century Venetian paintings", Early music 39/1 (2011) 7.

RIdIM record id

4273