Pala d’altare: Vergine col Bambino in trono tra i Santi Giovanni Battista e Girolamo

Palmezzano, Marco (ca. 1460-1539)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1510
Height:
295.0 cm  (116 1/8 in.)
Width:
194.0 cm  (76 3/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on panel

Additional titles

Virgin and Child enthroned between Saints John the Baptist and Jerome

    Item location

  • Musei Vaticani
    Pinacoteca[Museum inv. no.: 273 (MV_40273_0_0)]

Description

Two saints in an architectural structure in which Mary is seated on the throne with her Son in her lap. An angel plays a type of fiddle.

People as subjects

St. Mary (Blessed Virgin)
St. John the Baptist
St. Jerome (ca. 342-420)
Jesus Christ

Iconclass

11F61
Madonna accompanied by saint(s)
11F611
'Sacra Conversazione'
11G21
angels singing, making music

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Fiddle [3142]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 2
Also search Musei Vaticani catalog (https://catalogo.museivaticani.va/opere) for data and image

Bibliographic references

Powers, Katherine. "Marco Palmezzano's music-making angels: Holding the fiddle in the Renaissance", The Galpin Society Journal 59 (2006) 139-259, fig. 3. RILM 2006-14114. www.jstor.org/stable/25163863

RIdIM record id

4593