St. James appears during the battle of Clavigo and secures the victory of the Christians over the Muslims (as foretold in a dream of Ramirus, King of Oviedo)

Altichiero (1330-before 1393)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1377-1379
Technique / Medium:
fresco

People as subjects

St. James the Greater

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Trumpet [4446] (On the left (center), one mounted soldier plays a trumpet, and another holds a trumpet)

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Brown, Howard Mayer. “Catalogus: A corpus of trecento pictures with musical subject matter, I/1: Pictures signed by or attributed to particular artists or their followers: Altichiero de Zevero to Duccio di Buoninsegna”, Imago musicae: International yearbook of musical iconography 1 (1984) 189-243, fig. 2. RILM 1987-08784.

RIdIM record id

4869