Allegorical scene: Monkey playing a shawm

Unknown (Dutch)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1520-1530

Diameter:

23.2 cm  (9 1/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

glass, paint

Description

A glass circle with four sections contains a monkey wearing a tunic, coat, a hat with three feathers, and a sword at his waist plays a shawm held in its left hand with a bird in its right hand. A recorder, shawm and harp are on the ground by its right foot. A crowned angel figure is on a cloud in the sky with fire and smoke emanating from his left hand and a scepter in his right hand. Castles appear in the background.

Iconclass

25F22
monkeys, apes

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Shawm [4258] (One being played and one on the ground, which is not fully visible.)
Recorder [4039] (Lying on the ground.)
Harp [3285] (Lying on the ground.)

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Husband, Timothy B. Stained glass before 1700 in American collections: Silver-stained roundels and unipartite panels (Corpus Vitrearum checklist IV). Studies in the history of art, Monograph Series I, vol. 39. (Washington, D.C.: The National Gallery of Art, 1991).

Klein, Matthias. The collection of Flemish tapestries from the 16th century at the Schlossmuseum Arnstadt, 2009 (Kultturbetrieb der Stadt Arnstadt, Schlossmuseum, 2010) 158, fig. 4.

RIdIM record id

5168