Coronation of Maria

Cristoforo da Seregno (active 1448-1480)

Nicolao da Seregno (active 1463-1500)


Item type:
mural
Date of creation:
ca. 1450
Technique / Medium:
fresco
Place of creation:
Disentis (Graubünden, Schweiz)

Additional titles

Angels with musical instruments

Description

Around the main scene of the coronation of Mary, six angels playing musical instruments. Clockwise: harp, fiddle, two straight trumpets with banners, lute and psaltery.

People as subjects

St. Mary (Blessed Virgin)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Harp [3285]
Fiddle [3142]
End-blown trumpet [6556]
Lute [3394]
Psaltery [3677]

RIdIM images


Full coronation scene

Detail of angel with harp

Detail of angel with fiddle

Detail of angel with trumpet

Detail of second angel trumpeter

Detail of angel with lute

Detail of angel with psaltery

Closeup detail of psaltery

Bibliographic references

Poeschel, Erwin. Kunstdenkmäler des Kantons Graubünden (Basel: Birkhäuser, 1943) vol. 5, 100f.

Kunstführer durch die Schweiz (Bern: Gesellschaft für Schweizerische Kunstgeschichte, 2005) vol. 2.

Notes

Research Project Hochschule Luzern-Musik, Switzerland (Antonio Baldassarre, Brigitte Bachmann-Geiser, Dorothea Baumann)

RIdIM record id

4310