L'incoronazione della Vergine

Giotto (born 1266 or 1267-died 1337) (workshop of)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1330
Technique / Medium:
tempera on wood

Additional titles

Coronation of the Virgin

    Item location

  • Santa Croce
    Baroncelli Chapel

Description

Inner left panel of a polyptych in the Baroncelli Chapel at Santa Croce, Florence. Group of angels with a group of 22 non-performers. Two angels are playing trumpets, one angel is playing psaltery, one is playing fiddle, and one is holding a curved horn (possibly the horn of a bagpipe).

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

End-blown trumpet [6556] (two)
Psaltery [3677]
Fiddle [3142]
Horn [4118] (curved conical horn held over angel's shoulder, partially visible; perhaps the horn of a bagpipe.)

Image URLs

image link 1
Fondazione Federico Zeri image, detail
image link 2
artyzm.com image, entire polyptich
image link 3
Fondazione Federico Zeri image, entire polyptich

Bibliographic references

Weigelt, Curt H. Giotto: des Meisters Gemälde in 293 Abbildungen (Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1925), pl. 202.

RIdIM record id

691