La Madonna col Bambino e i Santi Francesco, Lorenzo, Giovanni Battista, Pietro, Domenico e Antonio Abate: pala d’altare

Palmezzano, Marco (ca. 1460-1539)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1537

Height:

340.0 cm  (133 7/8 in.)

Width:

226.5 cm  (89 3/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on panel

Additional titles

Description

Several saints in an architectural structure in which Mary is seated on the throne with her Son in her lap. An angel plays a type of fiddle.

People as subjects

St. Mary (Blessed Virgin)
Jesus Christ
St. John the Baptist
St. Peter
St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226)
St. Dominic (1170-1221)
St. Anthony of Egypt (ca. 250-355 or 356)
St. Laurence (died 258)

Iconclass

11F61
Madonna accompanied by saint(s)
11F611
'Sacra Conversazione'
11G21
angels singing, making music

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Fiddle [3142]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 2

Bibliographic references

Powers, Katherine. "Marco Palmezzano's music-making angels: Holding the fiddle in the Renaissance", The Galpin Society Journal 59 (2006) 139-259, fig. 1. RILM 2006-14114. www.jstor.org/stable/25163863

Notes

Search Musei Vaticani catalog (https://catalogo.museivaticani.va/opere) for museum data and image

RIdIM record id

6068