St. Cecilia

Gramatica, Antiveduto (1571-1626) (attributed to)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1620-1625
Height:
91.0 cm  (35 13/16 in.)
Width:
120.0 cm  (47 1/4 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Kunsthistorisches Museum (Wien)
    [Museum inv. no.: GG_249]

Description

St. Cecilia depicted with angel musicians playing harp and lute. Cecilia appears to be singing from a book of music.

People as subjects

St. Cecilia (Musician)

Iconclass

11HH(CECILIA)111
St. Cecilia making music and/or singing
11G21
angels singing, making music

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394] (Two, smaller one face down on table)
Harp [3285]
Violin [3573]
Tambourine [2746]
Recorder [4039]

RIdIM images


© KHM-Museumsverband

Image URLs

image link 1
Wikimedia Commons image
image link 2
Kunsthistorisches Museum

Bibliographic references

Stevens, Jane R. "Hands, music, and meaning in some seventeenth-century Dutch paintings", Imago musicae: International yearbook of musical iconography 1 (1984): 75-102, fig. 13. RILM 1984-07012.

RIdIM record id

4747