Collegiate Church of St. Mary

Prudde, John (active 1439-1447) (workshop of)


Item type:
architectural object
Date of creation:
1463
Technique / Medium:
stained glass
Place of creation:
Warwick (England)

Additional titles

Beauchamp Chapel: East-most north window.

Description

In the Beauchamp Chapel's east-most north stained-glass windows, angels are seen playing musical instruments. From left-to-right, the upper row of stained glass shows a clavicymbal and a portative organ. Also from left-to-right, the lower row of glass shows: a large shawm (possibly a douçaine), tromba marina, tambourine, two small pipes (possibly cornamusa), 6-string clavichord, bagpipe, triangle without jingling rings, single and double pibgorn, two medium pipes (possibly cornamusa), two large pipes (possibly cornamusa), two small pipes (possibly cornamusa), and a double pibgorn.

Iconclass

11G21
angels singing, making music

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Harpsichord [2251] (early clavicymbalum (clavisimbalum) type)
Portative organ [2267]
Shawm [4258]
Trumpet marine [3519]
Tambourine [2746]
Clavichord [2232]
Bagpipe [3746]
Triangle [3005]
Pibgorn [4670]
Cornamusa [4188]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1
from Wikimedia Commons
image link 2
Online Stained Glass Photographic Archive, with detail images

Bibliographic references

Le, Couteur J. D., and G. M. N. Rushforth. English mediæval painted glass (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1926).

Berry, Mark. Index of triangle iconography (Bowling Green, Kentucky: Living Sound Publications, 2017).

RIdIM record id

5461