Musica

Stimmer, Tobias (1539-1584) (follower or school of)


Item type:
drawing
Date of creation:
1578
Height:
42.3 cm  (16 5/8 in.)
Width:
35.2 cm  (13 7/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
brown ink on paper
Place of creation:
Schaffhausen (Schweiz)

Additional titles

Ensemble with lute and clavichord player, and three singers

Description

A woman playing clavichord (right), a woman playing lute, a group of three men singing from a book. Also depicted are a viola da gamba, a looped trumpet and harp. In the background, Orpheus playing viola da gamba in the midst of animals.

Iconclass

94O511
Orpheus playing the lyre: trees and rocks move, beasts and birds are enchanted

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394]
Clavichord [2232]
Trumpet [4446] (looped)
Harp [3285]
Viola da gamba [3604]

RIdIM images


Bibliographic references

Hasler, Rolf. Die Scheibenriss-Sammlung Wyss (Bern: Stämpfli, 1997) vol. 2, 128.

Notes

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

RIdIM record id

4408