Ascension

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

73E42
the Ascension (Christ surrounded by radiant light or in a mandorla)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Rebec [3202] (all instruments played by angels)
Lute [3394]
Psaltery [3677] (trapezoidal psaltery)
Fiddle [3142]

RIdIM images


Detail showing instruments

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. 21. RILM 1987-08784.

RIdIM record id

5000