Coronation of the Virgin

Altichiero (1330-before 1393)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1379-1384

Technique / Medium:

fresco

Description

Angels on the left play: trumpets, shawms, incurved demi-trapezoidal psaltery, lute, portative organ, and fiddle. Angels on the right play: trumpets, shawm, gittern, harp, incurved trapezoidal psaltery, portative organ, and shawm.

People as subjects

St. Mary (Blessed Virgin)

Iconclass

73E79
coronation of Mary in heaven (usually the Holy Trinity present)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Trumpet [4446]
Shawm [4258]
Psaltery [3677]
Lute [3394]
Portative organ [2267]
Fiddle [3142]
Gittern [3365]
Harp [3285]

Image URLs

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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 music: International yearbook of musical iconography 1 (1984) 189-243, fig. 3. RILM 1987-08784

RIdIM record id

4870