Madonna col Bambino in trono, fra tre angeli e quattro santi

Palmezzano, Marco (ca. 1460-1539)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1520
Technique / Medium:
oil on panel

Additional titles

Virgin and Child enthroned with saints and angels

    Item location

  • Chiesa di Santa Maria degli angeli o dell’osservanza (Brisighella, Italia)

Description

Four saints (Jerome, Anthony Abbot, Francis, and either Valerian or George) 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)
St. Jerome (ca. 342-420)
Jesus Christ
St. Francis of Assisi (1182-1226)
St. Anthony of Egypt (ca. 250-355 or 356)

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. RILM 2006-14114. www.jstor.org/stable/25163863

RIdIM record id

6069