Saint Cecilia

Palmezzano, Marco (ca. 1460-1539)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

ca. 1530

Height:

95.3 cm  (37 1/2 in.)

Width:

66.2 cm  (26 1/16 in.)

Depth:

3.8 cm  (1 1/2 in.)

framed: 111.1 × 84.1 × 8.6 cm (43 3/4 × 33 1/8 × 3 3/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on panel (?)

Description

Portrait of St. Cecilia seated, playing a type of fiddle, and possibly singing.

People as subjects

St. Cecilia (Musician)

Iconclass

11HH(CECILIA)11
St Cecilia as patroness of music
11HH(CECILIA)111
St. Cecilia making music and/or singing

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Fiddle [3142] (5 strings; see article by Powers)

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Powers, Katherine. "Marco Palmezzano's music-making angels: Holding the fiddle in the Renaissance", The Galpin Society Journal 59 (2006) 139-259. RILM 2006-14114. www.jstor.org/stable/25163863

RIdIM record id

6063