Gloria angelica

Brueghel, Jan, the elder (1568-1625)

Rottenhammer, Hans, I (1564-1625)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1594-1595

Height:

26.0 cm  (10 1/4 in.)

Width:

36.5 cm  (14 3/8 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on copper

Additional titles

Description

Angels making music. They are singing as well as playing and holding bowed and plucked string instruments (viol, lira, harp). The depiction also includes visible but not legible music.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Harp [3285]
Viol [3597]
Lira da braccio [3181]

Musical works

illegible music notation
visible music

RIdIM images

Bibliographic references

Marco Navoni, and Alberto Rocca. Pinacoteca Ambrosiana (Milan: Skira, 2023) 121.

Notes

There are differing opinions regarding the dating of the painting. The fact that between 1594 and 1595 both Brueghel the Elder and Hans Rottenhammer were in Rome at this time speaks in favor of earlier dating. If the painting was created between 1596 and 1605, Rottenhammer would have painted the figures in Venice, where he was at the time, and then sent the painting to Antwerp, where Brueghel would have completed the painting with the execution of the landscape.

RIdIM record id

9864