Crucifixion and Christ descends into limbo

Andrea da Firenze (active 1346, died 1379)


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

    Item location

  • Basilica di Santa Maria Novella (Firenze)
    Spanish Chapel

People as subjects

Jesus Christ

Iconclass

73D
Passion of Christ

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Trumpet [4446] (played by a mounted soldier in the crucifixion scene)
Psaltery [3677] (played by King David in limbo)

RIdIM images


Detail showing trumpet raised upward in the background

Detail showing David with psaltery among the large group in limbo

Image URLs

image link 1
Fondazione Federico Zeri images
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. 19. RILM 1987-08784.

RIdIM record id

4998