Trionfo di Davide

Leyden, Lucas Hugensz van (ca. 1494-1533)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1510-1533
Height:
23.5 cm  (9 1/4 in.)
Width:
18.7 cm  (7 3/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
stained glass

Additional titles

The Triumph of David

Description

The scene depicts the young David (right side), accompanied by women making music (middle and left side), one woman holding a music sheet, another woman (view from the back side) playing a lute (partially visible), others singing. David carries the head of Goliath, stuck onto an enormous sword. The story of David and Goliath is told in the First Book of Samuel (Sam 1:17).

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lute [3394]

Musical works

illegible music notation
music notation visible but hardly legible

RIdIM images


Bibliographic references

Marco Navoni, and Alberto Rocca. Pinacoteca Ambrosiana (Milan: Skira, 2023) 123.

RIdIM record id

9867