The Church militant and triumphant

Andrea da Firenze (active 1346, died 1379)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1366-1368
Technique / Medium:
fresco
Place of creation:
Firenze (Italia)

Additional titles

The Church as the path to salvation
Ecclesia militans, Ecclesia triumphans

    Item location

  • Basilica di Santa Maria Novella (Firenze)
    Spanish Chapel

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Fiddle [3142] (played by woman in the seated lower right-hand group)
Bagpipe [3746] (played by man below the seated right-hand group)
Tambourine [2746]

RIdIM images


Detail showing fiddle (vielle) and bagpipe

Detail showing tambourine

Image URLs

image link 1
Fondazione Federico Zeri image
image link 2
Web Gallery of Art image

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. 18. RILM 1987-08784.

RIdIM record id

4992