Miriam leading the choir of women after the drowning of Pharaoh in the Red Sea

Franceschini, Marc Antonio (1648-1729) (after a work of)

Item type:

drawing

Technique / Medium:

drawing

Description

Copy after Marcantonio Franceschini's cartoon for a mosaic in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, Italy. In this scene from Exodus 15, Miriam the prophetess praises God in celebration of the Israelites escape from Pharaoh’s army at the Red Sea. Miriam plays a timbrel and an Israelite woman plays a triangle. The triangle is closed-ended and has seven jingling rings. The triangle is played in a left-handed manner.

People as subjects

Miriam (Biblical figure) (Musician)

Iconclass

71E12321
Miriam's song of praise ~ Exodus

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Triangle (with rings) (7 rings)
Frame drum [2598]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

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

Kurz, Otto. Bolognese drawings of the XVII and XVIII centuries in the collection of Her Majesty The Queen at Windsor Castle (London: Phaidon Press, 1955) K(B) 235.

RIdIM record id

5463