Orfei

Schiavone, Andrea (ca. 1500-1563, born in Dalmatia) (attributed to)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

mid-16th century

Height:

22.0 cm  (8 11/16 in.)

Width:

40.5 cm  (15 15/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on wood

Additional titles

Description

Orpheus enchanting the animals.

Iconclass

http://www.iconclass.org/rkd/94O511/
Orpheus playing the lyre: trees and rocks move, beasts and birds are enchanted

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lira da braccio [3181]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 3

Bibliographic references

Richardson, Francis L. Andrea Schiavone (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980).

Blažeković, Zdravko. "What Marsyas may have meant to the Cinquecento Venetians, or Andrea Schiavone's symbolism of musical instruments",
Music in art 26/1-2 (2001) 30-46. RILM 2001-05660.

Notes

Croatian name of Adrea Schiavone: Andrija Medulić.

RIdIM record id

5475