Musical angels

Unknown

Item type:

sculpture

Date of creation:

ca. 1450-1500

Height:

20.3 cm  (8 in.)

Width:

20.3 cm  (8 in.)

Depth:

5.7 cm  (2 1/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

partially gilt and polychromed alabaster

Description

In a group of three angels, one (with her hand at her neck) may be singing; the two others are playing musical instruments: lute (neck broken off) and portative organ. French or Burgundian origin.

Iconclass

11G21
angels singing, making music
48C7522
one person playing string instrument (plucked)
48C7523
one person playing keyboard instrument

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394]
Portative organ [2267]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

The eye listens: music in the visual arts: an exhibition to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Dwight Art Memorial, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, October 23 through November 15, 1950 (South Hadley, Massachusetts: Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, 1950) no. 21, fig. 21.





Schrader, J. L. The waning Middle Ages: an exhibition of French and Netherlandish art from 1350 to 1500, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The waning of the Middle Ages (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1969) 57, no. 58, pl. 58.

Gillerman, Dorothy. Gothic sculpture in America: The New England museums, 1 (New York: Garland Publishing, 1989) 315–16, no. 234.

RIdIM record id

6129