Angelo che suona il liuto

Melozzo da Forlì (1438-1494)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1480-1484
Height:
101.0 cm  (39 3/4 in.)
Width:
70.0 cm  (27 9/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
fresco, transferred and laid down on cadorite
Place of creation:
Roma

Additional titles

Angel playing the lute
Angelo, posto di tre quarti, che suona un liuto

    Item location

  • Musei Vaticani
    Pinacoteca[Museum inv. no.: 40269.14.14]

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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Wikimedia Commons image
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Musei Vaticani image of Room IV

Bibliographic references

Benati, Daniele, Mauro Natale, and Antonio Paolucci. Melozzo da Forlì: l'umana bellezza tra Piero della Francesca e Raffaello (Cinisello Balsamo, Milano: Silvana, 2011) 208, 212. ISBN 9788836619474.

Musei Vaticani. Guide to the masterpieces of the Pinacoteca Vaticana; foreword by Antonio Paolucci; texts by Barbara Furlotti; translation by Russell Hall (Città del Vaticano: Edizioni Musei Vaticani; Firenze: Scala, 2008) 32-33. ISBN 9788881171774.

Notes

"The 14 fragments with the Apostles and Angel musicians (these too exhibited in room IV) together with the figure of Christ, (now in the Quirinal Palace) were part of the old decoration of the apse of the Church of the SS. Apostoli in Rome illustrating the Ascension of Christ. The fresco, which was destroyed in 1711, was painted by Melozzo da Forlì around 1480, shortly after the works of restoration on the church for cardinal Giuliano della Rovere, the future Pope Julius II (pontiff from 1503 to 1513). The solemn, monumental figures, strongly foreshortened, testify to the full maturity of the great artist from Forlì, a follower of Piero della Francesca, and his skill in the use of perspective" (Musei Vaticani web site, 16 April 2015)

RIdIM record id

4531