Musicians on a balcony

Ansaldo, Giovanni Andrea (1584-1638)

Item type:

mural

Date of creation:

ca. 1623-1626

Technique / Medium:

fresco

Place of creation:

Genova

Description

This multi-part trompe l'oeil fresco surrounds the room in which it was painted, just below a large ceiling fresco. Two groups of musicians singing and playing instruments are depicted: two or three singers (one with a leg dangling over the balcony railing) accompanied by lute and guitar, with a violinist to the right; a group of wind players with three cornetts (one a small cornettino), sackbut, lute and guitar.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Guitar [3237]
Violin [3573]
Lute [3394]
Cornett [3868]
Sackbut (trombone) [4364]

Bibliographic references

Heck, Thomas F. "Guitarists in the balconies and rafters: The musical frescoes of Genoa's Spinola palaces", Early music 42/1 (2014) 85-93, illus. 1-5.

Heck, Thomas F. "Chitarristi sulle balconate: Gli affreschi musicali nei palazzi Spinola di Genova", Il Fronimo: Rivista di chitarra 165 (2014) 25-36. RILM 2014-950.

RIdIM record id

4603