Ängel som Klappar i Händerna och Ängel med Nyckelharpa

Eghil (active ca. 1470-1500)

Item type:

mural

Date of creation:

c. 1500-1520

Technique / Medium:

mural al secco

Place of creation:

Tolfta

Additional titles

Description

Near Christ as the Man of Sorrows, there is an angel who has no instrument. However, his hands give the impression that they are engaged in some lively movement; perhaps he is clapping them. The angel with a keyed-fiddle (nyckelharpa) holds the instrument in a horizontal position. The arched bow with which he plays it has a handle that bends upwards, and he holds it with his thumb between the stick and the horsehair.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Nyckelharpa [3193] (guitar-shaped body with a large rose; four strings and neck with eight visible keys, on three of which, only the end is marked; at least three rear sagittal pegs can be seen in the rounded pegboard; the four strings are fastened to a trapezoid object from the narrowest end of which run two parallel lines.)

Bibliographic references

Barth Magnus, Ingebjørg and Birgit Kjellström. Musikmotiv i svensk kyrkokonst: Uppland fram till 1625 = Musical Motifs in Swedish Church Art: The Region of Uppland up to 1625. Trans. by Michael Stevens (Stockholm: Svenska RIdIM-kommittén; Statens musiksamlingar, 1993) 45-46, 283-86. ISBN 9197211702. RILM 1993-13916.

Notes

"Eghil" is used as an anonymous artist distinction rather than a specific man's name.

RIdIM record id

664