Angels: [Gl Norwich St Peter Hungate] British, 15th century. Annunciation to the Virgin. Norwich, Church of St. Peter Hungate. stained glass. Feathered angels play fiddle and bagpipe. (M. Remnant. English Bowed Instruments from Anglo-Saxon to Tudor Times. Oxford 1986. pl. 125)
[Gl Warwick St Mary's] Prudde, John (fl. p.1439) (designer). Angels (ca.1447). Warwick, St. Mary's Church, Beauchamp Chapel. stained glass. One of the many musical angels plays a bagpipe. (Harrison and Rimmer. fig. 77; J. Montagu. The World of Medieval & Renaissance Musical Instruments. Woodstock NY 1976. p. 57; M. Remnant. English Bowed Instruments from Anglo-Saxon to Tudor Times. Oxford 1986. pl. 77)
Animals: [Ms Oxford BL Ms Laud. Misc 302] British, mid-15th century. Grotesque Banquet, from a Missal. Oxford BL, Ms Laud. Misc. 302, fol. 210. manuscript illumination (bas-de-page). A _fox plays a bagpipe and a monkey plays a pipe and tabor. (O. Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander. Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, III. Oxford 1973. cat. no. 1011, pl. XCIV)
Musicians, Minstrels, etc.: [Wsc Oxford All Souls College] British, first half, 15th century? Bagpiper. Oxford, All Souls College, chapel, choir stalls. wood sculpture. (Royal Commission on Historical Monuments. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Oxford. London 1939. pl. 71)
David Dancing before the Ark/Transporting the Ark of the Covenant: [Ms Vienna OeNB 2771] Dutch (Utrecht) ca.1460. Transporting the Ark of the Covenant from the historiated Bible of Evert van Soudenbalch. Vienna OeNB, cod. 2771, fol. 177v. manuscript illumination. King David plays a harp. His musicians play a lute and a bagpipe. (O. Pächt and U. Jenni. Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der OeNB. Reihe I, Bd. 3: Höllandische Schule. Vienna 1975. Tafelband Abb. 99)
Nativity: [Wsc art market] Dutch (Utrecht), ca.1470. Nativity. Utrecht art market (1965). wood sculpture. Includes a shepherd with a bagpipe. (Oude Kunst ... 17 [1965] Stand 27)
Nativity -- Annunciation to the Shepherds: [Ms London Courtauld] Dutch (Utrecht) mid-15th century. Annunciation to the Shepherds, from a Book of Hours. London, Courtauld InstituteGalleries (ex Seilern Coll), fol. 38v. manuscript illumination. Includes a shepherd with a bagpipe. (O. Pächt and U. Jenni. Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der OeNB. Reihe I, Bd. 3: Höllandische Schule. Vienna 1975. Textband fig. 36; Meiss 1974, vol. II, no. 626, as by the Seilern Master)
[Ms Vienna OeNB S n 12848] Dutch (Utrecht), mid-15th century. Annunciation to the Shepherds, from a Book of Hours. Vienna OeNB cod. S.n. 12848, fol. 48v. manuscript illumination. Includes a shepherd with a bagpipe. (O. Pächt and U. Jenni. Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der OeNB. Reihe I, Bd. 3: Höllandische Schule. Vienna 1975. Tafelband Abb. 41, as 1450. Thinks this a copy of a book of hours [formerly] in the Seilern collection [now London, Courtauld Institute Galleries]. See Ms London Courtauld entry, above.)
Fools: [Wsc Zwolle Stadhuis] Johann uit Kampen (doc. 1477). Fool Playing a Bagpipe (1477). Zwolle, Stadhuis, Raadzaal. wood sculpture. (E. H. ter Kuile. Noord- en Oost-Salland ... 's-Gravenhage 1974. [De nederl. Monumenten van Geschiedenis en Kunst, IV/3: Prov. Overijsel. Noord- en Oost-Salland] fig. 215)
[Master of the Banderoles Pr] Master of the Banderoles (op. ca.1450-1500), after a Florentine master. Battle of Twelve Women over a Pair of Trousers. engraving. A fool, watching, holds a bagpipe. (Hollstein [Dutch] XII, no., p. 65)
[Master of the Banderoles Pr] _______, after various engravings by Master E. S. Fountain of Youth. engraving. Includes a fool with a bagpipe in the background, behind a well, flanked by a woman and a man. These three figures are the same as the three figures of Meckenem's A Pair of Lovers beside a Well, which is a reverse copy of figures by the Master E. S. (see below). (Hollstein [Dutch] XII, no. L.92, p. 68; IB vol. 23, no. 6, p.91 [ok reproduction]; A. Griseri. Jaquerio e il realismo gotico in Piemonte. Turin [196-]. p. 95; van Marle Iconographie. vol. II, p. 438; exh Paris, 1957: Les incunables sur bois et sur métal de la Collection Edmond de Rothschild au Musée du Louvre. pl. XI; Oud-Holland 91 [1977] 217)
Jesse Tree: [Ms Brussels BR 9511] Le Tavernier, Jean (doc.1434-1477). Jesse Tree, from the Breviary of Philip the Good. Brussels BR Ms 9511, vol. I, fol. 15. manuscript illumination. Many musical Kings of Judah, including one playing a bagpipe. (M. Smeyers. L'art de la miniature flamande ... Tournai 1998. p. 298 [ok color reproduction of the whole page], as ca.1455; R. Wangermée. Flemish Music and Society in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. Transl. R. E. Wolf. New York 1968. pl. 2 [color reproduction of the whole page]; Musica calendar 1978: 24-31 December [fine color reproduction])
Last Judgement: See also Miscellaneous Figures, Angels.
Nativity: [Ms Brussels BR IV 106] Liédet, Loyset (fl. ca.1460-1478). Nativity, from Ludolf of Saxony, Vita Christi (1461). Brussels BR Ms IV.106, fol. 30. manuscript illumination. Includes a shepherd with a bagpipe. (Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique. Section des Manuscrits. La librairie de Bourgogne. Bibliothèque Royale. Brussels 1970. no. 37)
[Bouts Pa] Bouts, Dieric I (ca.1415-1475). Nativity (fragment). Berlin SM. Includes a shepherd with a bagpipe. (Vis. Coll. 374.1.B665.22N[a]1)
[Goes Pa] Goes, Hugo van der (doc. 1467-m.1482). Nativity, from the Portinari Altarpiece. Florence Uffizi. One of the shepherds has a small, curved horn horn with three finger holes suspended from a strap (another, in the background, carries a bagpipe). (Friedländer IV [1969] cat. no. 10, pll.14, 15. Commissioned by Tommaso Portinari, who lived in Bruges as an agent of the Medici, and given to the hospital of the church of Santa Maria Nuova, Firenze. Painted between 1473 and 1475; E. Panofsky. Early Netherlandish Painting. Cambridge 1953. pl. 305, fig. 463; Vis. Coll. 374.1.G 558. 22A [Alinari 4175F is a fine detail of the shepherds with horn and bagpipe])
Nativity -- Annunciation to the Shepherds: [Ms Baltimore W281] N. French or Flemish (Tournai) ca.1430-35) (The Master of Walters 218). Annunciation to the Shepherds, from a Book of Hours. Baltimore WAG Ms W.281, fol. 85. manuscript illumination. Includes a prominent shepherd holding a bagpipe. (R. S. Wieck. Time Sanctified ... New York 1988. cat. 35, p. 63 [small reproduction])
[Ms Oxford BL Rawl liturg e 14] Flemish (Master of Guillebert de Metz), ca.1440. Annunciation to the Shepherds, from a Book of Hours. Oxford BL Ms Rawl. liturg. e.14, fol. 43v. manuscript illumination. One of the shepherds holds a bagpipe. (O. Pächt and J. J. G. Alexander. Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. vol. I. Oxford 1966. cat. no. 313, pl.XXV [minuscule reproduction])
[Memling Pa] Memling (Memlinc), Hans (1430/40-1494). The Seven Joys of Mary. Munich AP. Includes an Annunciation to the Shepherds with a shepherd holding a substantial bagpipe. (Friedländer Via, no. 33, pll. 82 [entire painting], 84; D. De Vos. Hans Memling, The Complete Works. Ghent 1994. no. 38, pp. 174-75 [fine color reproduction of entire painting], 177 [large, but slightly fuzzy color detail with the bagpiper]; Vis. Coll. 374.1.M516.3J)
Dance of Death: [Ms Kassel LB 4o MS poet et roman 5] Franco-Flemish, ca. 1470. Death and the Conseiller, no. XIX from a Dance of Death. Kassel LB 4o MS poet. et roman.5. manuscript illustration. Death plays a bagpipe. Rather crudely depicted. (Hammerstein Tanz . fig. 286)
Angels: [Pa location unknown] Flemish, second half, 15th century. Virgin and Child. location unknown. Six musical angels, including one playing a bagpipe. (exh Brooklyn Museum, 1936: European Art 1450-1500. pl. 21, as by the Master of the Hohenzollern Sigmaringen Madonna; exh Rotterdam BvB, 1936: Jeroen Bosch ... cat. no. 76a., fig. 50; Vis. Coll. 374.1.F6215.34[e])
Nativity: See also Miscellaneous Figures, Shepherds.
[Ms Chantilly MC 71] Fouquet, Jean (ca.1420-ca.1481?). The Adoration of the Shepherds, from the Hours of Etienne Chevalier. Chantilly MC, Ms 71, fol. h. manuscript illumination. Includes a shepherd with a bagpipe. (T. Cox. Jehan Foucquet. London 1931. pl. XVI [poor reproduction]; K. G. Perls. Jean Fouquet. London 1940. fig. 6 [fair reproduction], as ca.1450; P. Wescher. Jean Fouquet und seine Zeit. Basel 1945. Abb. 3; F. Wittgens. Vincenzo Foppa. Milan n.d. Tav. XI; Vis. Coll. C366MC.71.f.h)
[Ms Chantilly MC 76] French, ca.1450. Nativity, from the Book of Hours of Adelaide de Savoie, Duchesse de Bourgogne. Chantilly MC Ms 76, fol. f. manuscript illumination. Includes a shepherd with a bagpipe. (Vis. Coll. C366MC.76.fol.f)
[Ms location unknown] Fouquet, Jean (ca.1420-ca.1481?). Nativity. location unknown (ex coll. A. Chester Beatty, Western Ms 90, fol. 51 [sold 1933]). Includes a shepherd with a bagpipe. (K. G. Perls. Jean Fouquet. London 1940. fig. 203, as ca. 1460)
[Ms location unknown] French, 15th century. Nativity, page from a Book of Hours. location unknown. manuscript illumination. Five figures dance, accompanied by shepherds playing bagpipe and shawm (?). (F. Engel-Gross. L'oeuvre d'un amateur d'art; la collection de monsieur F. Engel-Gross, catalogue raisonné. Geneva 1925. Ms Enlum. 44, pl. 93 [fair reproduction])
[Ms private collection] French, 15th century. Nativity, from a Book of Hours. private collection (C. Gillet). manuscript illumination. Includes a shepherd with a bagpipe. (Vis. Coll. 375.F915.19HP1)
[Master of the Garden of Love Pr] Master of the Garden of Love (Burgundy or the Netherlands, op. ca. 1440-50). Nativity. engraving. Includes a shepherd with a bagpipe. (Hollstein XII, no. G.2, p. 169. Notes reproduction in Geisberg. Meister der Graphik II. 1923. pl. 61)
Nativity -- Annunciation to the Shepherds: [Ms Lyons BM 5142] French, 15th century. Annunciation to the Shepherds, from a Book of Hours. Lyons BM Ms. 5142, fol. 44. manuscript illumination. Includes a shepherd with a bagppe (only the chanter is visible). (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 65 [1965] 302 [small reproduction])
[Ms New York Morgan M287] Franco-Flemish, ca.1445. Annunciation to the Shepherds, from a Book of Hours. New York Morgan M.287, fol. 64v. manuscript illumination. Ten shepherds and shepherdesses dance as a bagpiping shepherd pauses to observe the announcing angel. (R. W. Wieck. Painted Prayers ... New York 1997. no. 49, p. 68 [ok color reproduction of the entire page])
[Ms New York Morgan M1093] French (Rouen) (The Master of the Geneva Latini and his workshop), ca.1470. Annunciation to the Shepherds, from a Book of Hours. New York Morgan M.1093, fol. 57. manuscript illumination. Includes a prominent bagpiping shepherd. (R. W. Wieck. Painted Prayers ... New York 1997. no. 50, p. 69 [ok color reproduction of the entire page])
[Ms Paris BN lat 13 305] Fouquet, Jean (ca.1420-ca.1481?). Annunciation to the Shepherds, from a Book of Hours. Paris BN, Ms lat. 13 305, fol. 63v. Includes a prominent shepherd with a bagpipe. (K. G. Perls. Jean Fouquet. London 1940. fig. 223 [fuzzy reproduction], as ca.1465)
[Paris BN n a lat **] French, 15th century. Annunciation to the Shepherds, from a Book of Hours of the ducs d'Orléans. Paris BN, n. a. lat. **, fol. 65v. manuscript illumination. One shepherd has a recorder (pausing). Another, riding on a donkey, plays a bagpipe. (Manuscrits a peintures offerts a la Bibliothèque Nationale par le Comte Guy du Boisrouvray. n. p. 1961. cat. no. 21, pl. 73, as ca. 1460-70)
[Ms art market] French (Rouen), 15th century. Annunciation to the Shepherds, from a Book of Hours. London art market (1959). manuscript illumination. One of the shepherds (prominent) plays a bagpipe. Also, the bas-de-page depicts five dancers accompanied by a bagpiper. (sale, Sotheby's, 23-24.II.1959; Burlington 101 [1959] February ad p. vi [poor reproduction])
Other: See also Scenes of Everyday Life -- Outdoor, Other.
[Ms Oxford BL Douce 364] French, mid-15th century. Two Allegorical Couples Dancing, from Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, Le Roman de la Rose. Oxford BL, Ms Douce 364, fol. 8. Two couples ("deduit," "L--se," "Lainaut," and "Courtoisie") dance, accompanied by musicians playing two shawms and a bagpipe. (Bowles Pratique pl. 52)
Other: [Ms Chantilly MC 71] Fouquet, Jean (ca.1420-ca.1481?). The Martyrdom of St. Apolline, from the Hours of Etienne Chevalier. Chantilly MC, Ms 71, fol. mm. manuscript illumination. Accompanying the spectacle (a sort of mystery play) are musicians playing a positive organ, bagpipe, two shawms/pommers, and two S-shaped trumpets. (Haas Aufführungspraxis. Taf. IV [wretched color illustration]; Meiss 1974. fig. 207; K. G. Perls. Jean Fouquet. London 1950, pl. IV [fair color reproduction], as ca.1450; Salmen Spielmann. Abb. 134; MgB III/8, p. 131 [large color reproduction], as ca.1470; The New Grove vol. 9, p. 16 [poor detail]; Vis. Coll. C366MC.71.fol.mm)
Balls: [Ms Paris BN fr 74] French, 15th century. Ball at the English Court, from Jean de Wavrin, Anchiennes cronicques d'Engleterre. Paris BN, Ms fr. 74, fol. 1. manuscript illumination. There are four musicians in a gallery, including two visible shawms. There is also a jester with a bagpipe. (Bowles Pratique. pl. 47; M. Smeyers. L'art de la miniature flamande ... Tournai 1998. p. 363 [ok color reproduction of the whole page])
Angels: [Pa art market] French (Eastern Pyrenees), 15th century. Coronation of the Virgin. New York art market (1962). Numerous musical angels, including one playing a bagpipe. (Savoy sale, American Art Association, New York, 16-18.II.1922; sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 24.X.1962 [poor reproduction])
[Sc art market] Anon., 15th century. Angel playing a Bagpipe. New York art market (1953). Caenstone figure. One of a pair. The other plays a pipe and tabor. (Burlington 95 [1953] June ad p. x; Connoisseur 131 [1953] March ad p. lxxi)
Fools: See als Scenes of Everyday Life -- Indoor, Balls.
[Iv London V&A] French, mid-15th century. The Fountain of Youth. London V&A. carved ivory comb. Includes a fool with a bagpipe. (Koechlin no. 1151, pl. CXCIII)
Musicians, Minstrels: [Ms Chantilly MC 71] Fouquet, Jean (ca.1420-ca.1481?). The Martyrdom of St. Etienne, from the Hours of Etienne Chevalier. Chantilly MC, Ms 71, fol. **. manuscript illumination. In the panel below there are dancers accompanied by a bagpiper. (Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 37 [1974] 168 [small reproduction], as ca.1455)
[Paris BN n a lat **] French, 15th century. Bagpiper, from a Book of Hours. Paris BN, n. a. lat. **, fol. 17. manuscript illumination (margin). (Manuscrits a peintures offerts a la Bibliothèque Nationale par le Comte Guy du Boisrouvray. n. p. 1961. cat. no. 22, pl. 75, as ca.1470)
[Pa Paris Louvre] French, 15th century. Bagpiper and Female Dancer. Paris Louvre. Painting on a wedding or blanket chest. (L. Réau. L'art gothique en France. rev. ed. Paris [196-?]. Fig. 184)
Shepherds: [Ms Macon 1-2] French (Paris) second half, 15th century. Shepherd with a Bagpipe. Macon, Bibliothèque, Ms 1-2. manuscript illumination (bas-de-page). (Exposition internationale, Paris, 1937: Chefs d'oeuvre de l'art français ... Paris 1937. vol. II, no. 200)
[Ms Paris BN lat 873] French, 15th century. Dancing Shepherds (Nativity). Paris BN, Ms lat. 873, fol. 21. manuscript illumination (bas-de-page). Three couples dance in a chain dance, accompanied by a bagpiper. (Bowles Pratique. pl. 58; Hammerstein Tanz. fig. 26 [drawing after]; The New Grove, vol. III, p. 201. Suggests that the dance is possibly a branle de Poitou.)
[Paris BN n a lat **] French, 15th century. Bagpiping Shepherd, from a Book of Hours. Paris BN, n. a. lat. **, fol. 36. manuscript illumination (bas-de-page). (Manuscrits a peintures offerts a la Bibliothèque Nationale par le Comte Guy du Boisrouvray. n. p. 1961. cat. no. 22, pl. 76, as ca. 1470)
[Paris BN n a lat **] French (Loire region), 15th century. Bagpiping Shepherd, from a Book of Hours. Paris BN, n. a. lat. **, fol. 49v. manuscript illumination (bas-de-page). (Manuscrits a peintures offerts a la Bibliothèque Nationale par le Comte Guy du Boisrouvray. n. p. 1961. cat. no. 20, pl. 65, as ca.1460)
[Vienna OeNB 2580] French (Loire region), 15th century. Shepherd with a Bagpipe, from an anonymous French translation of Petrus de Crescentiis, Ruralium commodorum libri XII. Vienna OeNB cod. 2580, fol. 144. manuscript illumination. From a treatise on animal husbandry. He is in a meadow beside two castles. (O. Pächt and D. Thoss. Die illuminierten Handschriften und Inkunabeln der OeNB. Reihe I, Bd. 1: Französische Schule I. Vienna 1974. Abb. 97)
[Quarton Pa] Quarton (Charonton), Enguerrand (ca.1410-doc to 1447). Coronation of the Virgin. Villeneuve-les-Avignon, Musée de l'Hospice. Includes a shepherd with a bagpipe. (A. M. Alavzen. La peinture en Provence du XIVe siècle à nos jours. Marseilles 1962. pl. 8 [ok color reproduction]; G. Ring. A Century of French Painting, 1400-1500. London 1949. pll. 66, 67 [details of the shepherd]. Notes that there is an extensive monograph on the painting: C. Sterling. Chefs d'oeuvre des primitifs français, Le Couronnement de la Vièrge par E. Quarton. Paris 1939.)
Other: [Wsc Saint-Germain] French, 15th century. Robed Figure Playing a Bagpipe. Vitteaux, Saint-Germain, organ loft. wood sculpture. (W. Stauder. Alte Musikinstrumente ... Braunschweig 1973. p. 134 [fine detail reproduction])
Other: [Gl Oppenheim Katharinenkirche] German (Cologne), 15th century. The Worship of the Golden Calf. Oppenheim, a. Rh., Katharinenkirche. Includes a peasant with a bagpipe, in the background, with a group leaving the scene. (Aachener Kunstblätter 43 [1972] 236 [whole, and excellent detail])
Last Judgement: [Fr Trier Dom] German, after 1450. Last Judgement. Trier, Dom, Savignykapelle. fresco. Includes a devil sitting on the mouth of Hell playing a long, curved horn (and sitting on the horn is a smaller devil playing a bagpipe). (Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz XIII/1: Trier (Dom). Düsseldorf 1931. p. 211)
Nativity: [Wsc Erfurt] German, ca.1470-80. Nativity. Erfurt, Predigerkirche. wood sculpture. Includes a shepherd holding a bagpipe. (A. Overmann. Die älteren Kunstdenkmäer ... der Stadt Erfurt. Erfurt [pref. 1911]. p. xxxi, as perhaps local artist, Nuremberg influence)
[Wsc Unterlimpurg Urbanskirche] German (Schwaben), ca. 1460. Nativity. Unterlimpurg, Urbanskirche. wood sculpture. Includes a little shepherd with a bagpipe. (M. Schuette. Der Schwäbische Schnitzaltar. Strasbourg 1907. [SdK 91] pl. 73)
[Baegert Pa] Baegert, Derick (ca.1440-1515). Nativity. Münster LM. Includes a shepherd with a bagpipe. (Stange VI. no. 98; exh Münster LM, 1937: Der Maler Derick Baegert und sein Kreis. no. 31, Taf. XXI; Wallraf-Richartz Jahrbuch 10 [1938] 149)
[Pleydenwurff Workshop Pa] Pleydenwurff, Hans (doc.1457-m.1472), Workshop. Nativity. Munich BNM. Includes a shepherd holding a bagpipe. (Stange IX, no. 193, as perhaps by Cuntz Pleydenwurff)
Nativity -- Adoration of the Magi: [Wsc Hannover LM] German (Niedersachsen, Braunschweig?), ca.1440. Adoration of the Magi. Hannover LM (ex Müden an der Aller, Kirche). Includes a shepherd with a bagpipe. (V. C. Habicht. Die mittelalterliche Plastik Hildesheims. Strasbourg 1917. [SdK, 195]. pl. XXXI, as ca.1430-40; Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Hannover, III/4: Kr. Gifhorn. Hannover 1931. pl. 22; 1957 catalog: Bildwerke. Ed. G. von der Osten. no. 78)
Nativity -- Annunciation to the Shepherds: [Wsc Lützenburg] Anon., 1467. Annunciation to the Shepherds. Lützenburg (Ostholstein). Includes a shepherd pausing from his bagpiping. The bagpipe is nothing special, but he is one of my favorite shepherds. (H. Wentzel. Das Lützenburger Altar von 1467. Hamburg 1951. pll. 34, 37 [detail])
[Multscher Pa] Multscher, Hans (ca.1400-1467). Nativity. Berlin SM SPK. Includes a shepherd with a bagpipe. (J. Baum. Ulmer Kunst. Stuttgart and Leipzig 1911. p. 4; O. Fischer. Geschichte der deutschen Malerei. Munich 2/1943. p. 150; E. Heidrich. Die altdeutsche Malerei. rev. Jena 1941. fig. 30; B. Lohse and H. Busch, eds. Kleinodien. Auserlesene Kunstwerke in Deutschland. Frankfurt am Main 1958. p. 162; A. Stange. Deutsche Kunst um 1400. Munich 1923. pl. 48. as 1437; Vis. Coll. 373.M919.20[c]1)
Passion -- Mocking/Flagellation of Christ: [Pa Anon] S. German, 15th century. The Mocking of Christ. Vienna art market (1913). Includes a figure with a bagpipe. (Christomannos sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 24-27.XI.1913)
Other: [Walther Pa] Walther, Friedrich (ca.1430-1494/95). St. Wendelin (1467). Bern HM. Includes a shepherd playing a bagpipe in the background. (H. Rott. Quellen und Forschungen zur südwestdeutschen und schweizerischen Kunstgeschichte im XV. und XVI. Jahrhundert, I: Bodenseegebiet. Stuttgart 1933. p. 47; Stange VIII, no. 204 [fair reproduction])
[Ms New York Morgan M] Anon., ca. 1460. Dance, from Hugo von Trimberg, Der Renner. New York Morgan Ms M 763, fol. 145v-146r. manuscript illumination. Four dancing couples are accompanied by players of fiddle, bagpipe and pipe and tabor. (MgB III/8, p. 161)
Dance of Death: [Pr Anon.] Swiss (probably Basel), ca. 1465. Tod und der Bischof, from a block-book. Basel, ca. 1465. woodcut. Death carries a bagpipe. (Hammerstein Tanz. whole set Abb. 100-123)
[Notke Pa] Notke, Bernt (ca.1440-1509). Dance of Death. Tallin, Eesti Kunstimuuseum/Art Museum of Estonia. Death has a bagpipe. (Deutsche Malerei in den Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad [1972] no. 11, unnumbered pl., as ca.1463? [large color reproduction]; Hammerstein Tanz. fig. 31)
Months/Zodiac (May/Gemini): [Pr Anon] Austrian, mid-15th century. May, from a Twelve Months series. metal cut. Includes a shepherd with a bagpipe. (Salmen Katalog. p. 25)
Playing Cards: [Pr Anon] Anon. (Oberrhein?), ca. 1450. "Narr," from a pack of playing cards. hand-painted woodcut. A barefoot fool with two bells on his cap plays a bagpipe. (Simiolus 11 [1980] 128, notes exh Vienna Albertina, 1974: Spielkarten, ihre Kunst und Geschichte in Mitteleuropa. cat. no. 17)
Angels: [Fr Görlitz Oberkirche] Anon., 1430. Te Deum. Görlitz, Oberkirche. fresco. Many musical angels, including one with a bagpipe. (Imago musicae 9-12 [1992-95] 257 [list], Heise no. 24)
Animals: [Ms Vienna OeNB 1852] Austrian (Salzburg) ca.1450. A Bear (?) with a Bagpipe. Vienna OeNB, cod.1852. manuscript illumination (margin). (exh Innsbruck, Hofburg, 1963: Österreich/Tirol1363-1963. Abb. 11)
[Ms Brixen Priesterseminar] Anon, second half, 15th century. A Bear Playing a Bagpipe. Brixen/Bressanone (S. Tirol), Priesterseminar, cod. F 8, fol. 3. manuscript illumination (margin) (Salmen Katalog. pl. 13)
[Wsc Braunschweig Gördelingerstrasse 38] Anon., ca.1470. Donkey with a Bagpipe. Braunschweig, Gördelingerstrasse 38, exterior ("Knaggenfigur"). wood sculpture. (R. Fricke. Das Bürgerhaus in Braunschweig. Tübigen 1975. [Das deutsche Bürgerhaus, 20] pl. 97)
Dancers: [BI Cologne ca.1478] Anon. The first text page from a Bible. Cologne, Heinrich Quentell, ca.1478. woodcut (border, in the style of a manuscript border). Moresca dancers (one a fool) with bells around arms and legs, accompanied by a bagpiper. (IB vol. 82, no. 1478/154, p. 28)
Demons/Devils: See also New Testament, Last Judgement.
Fools: See also Allegory, Playing Cards.
[Wsc Geneva St Gervais] Swiss?, 15th century. Fool with a Bagpipe. Geneva, St. Gervais, choir stalls, misericorde. wood sculpture. (W. Deonna. Les arts a Genève. Geneva 1942. p. 186)
[Haider Workshop Wsc] Haider, Simon (fl.1465-m.a.1480?), Workshop. Fool with a Bagpipe. Constance, Cathedral, choir stalls, misericorde. wood sculpture. (J. Eschweiler. Das Konstanzer Chorgestühl. Friedrichshafen 1949. pl. 97)
[Meckenem Pr] Mecken, Israhel van (ca.1440-1503). Fool. engraving. The fool has a recorder in his waistband, a bagppe on the ground between his feet, and bells on his cap and sleeve. (IB vol. 9, no. 236, p. 218; Hollstein [German] XXVIA, no. 484, p. 194)
[Meckenem Pr] _______. A Pair of Lovers Beside a Well. engraving. A fool, between them, has a bagpipe. (IB vol. 9, no. 165, p. 251; Hollstein [German] XXIVA, no. 469, p. 188)
[Master of the Housebook Pr] Master of the Housebook (op. ca. 1475-ca.1500). Fool Playing a Bagpipe. etching. (J. C. Hutchison. The Master of the Housebook. New York 1972. p. 139; A. Stange. Der Hausbuchmeister. Strasbourg 1958. [SdK 316] no. 62, p. 73; exh Amsterdam Rpk, 1985: The Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet, or the Housebook Master, ca. 1470-1500. no. 62, p. 160)
[Master E S] Master E. S. (ca.1420-ca.1469). The Small Garden of Love. engraving. Includes a fool with a bagpipe. (Simiolus 11 [1980] 129) Reverse copy by Israhel van Meckenem. (IB vol. 9, no. 165, p. 251)
[Master E S School Pr] Master E. S. (ca.1420-ca.1469), School of. "Narr," the "Ones" of a set of playing cards. Vienna KH, Ambraser-Sammlung. woodcut and water color. One, dressed as a monk, has a bagpipe. Another has a pipe and tabor (the hand holding the drumstick also holds two pellet bells, rather as one would hold castanets). (JbKH 2 [1884] 107)
Musicians, Minstrels, etc.: [Sc Rochlitz, Kunigundenkirche] Anon., before 1476. Bagpiper. Rochlitz, Kunigundenkirche, south facade. sclupture. (Imago musicae 9-12 [1992]95] 275, Heise no. 67)
[Me Goslar Rathaus] German, 15th century. Musician(s) (1477). Goslar, Rathaus? gold and silver goblet. The musician(s) are depicted around the middle and include a bagpiper. (K. G. Bruchmann. Goslar. Munich 1952. [Deutsche Lande Deutsche Kunst] pll. 37 [poor reproduction], 38 [detail of the bagpiper]. No location.)
Rustic/Village Musicians: [Master of the Housebook Dr] Master of the Housebook (op. ca. 1475-ca.1500). Sheet of figure studies for a peasant festival. Erlangen, Universitätsbibliothek. drawing. Includes a bagpiper. (E. Bock, ed. Die Zeichnungen in der Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen. Frankfurt am Main 1929.)
Shepherds: See also New Testament, Nativity; New Testament, Nativity -- Adoration of the Magi; Saints, Other; Allegory, Months/Zodiac (May/Gemini).
[Pa private collection] Austrian (Vorarlberg), second half, 15th century. Holy Family. private collection. Includes a shepherd in the background. (Stange VII, no. 119)
Nativity: [Pa Javierre Parroquia] Anon, 15th century. Adoration of the Shepherds. Javierre, Parroquia. Includes a shepherd with a bagpipe. (Catalogo monumental de España. Huesca. Madrid 1947. fig. 697)
[Master of St George Pa] Master of Saint George location unknown (formerly Lippmann coll, Berlin). Includes a shepherd with a bagpipe. (Post VI/2, p. 551, as Master of Saint George or a Follower. Notes Lippman sale, Berlin 1912, no. 45, pl. 23)
Nativity -- Annunciation to the Shepherds: [Sc Seville Cathedral] Lorenzo Mercadante da Bretaña (op.1454-1467). Annunciation to the Shepherds. Seville, Cathedral, Portal of the Nativity, tympanon. Includes five shepherds dancing in a circle, accompanied by a bagpiper. (A. Durán Sanpere, et al. Escultura gotica. Madrid 1956. [Ars hispaniae, 8]. fig. 354, as 1464-67)
[Ms Escorial] Spanish (Franco-Flemish influence), ca.1470. Annunciation to the Shepherds, from the Book of Hours of D. Alonso de Zúñiga. Escorial, Biblioteca. manuscript illumination. Includes a prominent shepherd holding a bagpipe. (Archivo Español de Arte 30 [1957] pl. IV, opp. p. 7)
[Ms New York Morgan M450] Ceseres, Juan (op.1468-1503). Annunciation to the Shepherds, from a Missal. New York Morgan Ms 450. Includes a shepherd playing a bagpipe. (J. D. Bordone and J. Ainaud. Miniatura ... Madrid 1962. [Ars hispaniae, 18], fig. 281, as ca.1468)
[Avila Master Pa] Avila Master (op.ca.1465-1490). Annunciation to the Shepherds, from a retable of the Nativity. private collection (Coll. Lázaro). Includes a shepherd with a bagpipe. (Post IV/2, p. 339 [whole triptych, useless for details], as Hispano-Flemish, ca.1470-75; 1926 catalog of the Lázaro collection, vol. I, p. 248 [useless reproduction], as Spanish, 15th-16th century; Vis. Coll. 376.Av5.22N1, N3 [nice detail])
Joachim, Annunciation to: [Sc Barcelona Cathedral] Anon., mid-15th century. The Story of Joachim. Barcelona, Cathedral, frieze of the cloister. sculpture. Includes a shepherd with a bagpipe. (Catalogo monumental de España. La Ciudad de Barcelona. Ed. J. Ainaud et al. Madrid 1947. fig. 368)
[Arguis Master Pa] Arguis Master (op. first half, second quarter or second half, 15th century). Annunciation to Joachim, from a retable of St. Anne and the Virgin. Alquezar (Huesca), Parroquia. Includes a shepherd with a bagpipe. (Post V, fig. 98 [whole retable, very small for bagpipe]; Vis. Coll. Ar 388.38A3b)
[Arguis Master Pa] _______. Annunciation to Joachim, from a retable of St. Anne. private collection. Includes a shepherd with a bagpipe. (Vis. Coll. 376.Ar.388.38A[a]3)
[Retascón Master Pa] Retascón Master (op. second quarter, 15th century). The Vision of St. Joachim, from scenes from the lives of Christ and the Virgin. private collection. Inclues a prominent shepherd with a bagpipe. (Vis. Coll. 376.R315.20[a]7)
Other: [St Basilissa Master Pa] St. Basilissa Master (Catalan, op. mid-15th century). A Shepherd Reveals Her Hiding Place to Her Father, from the Retable of St. Barbara. Barcelona MAC. Includes a shepherd with a bagpipe. (Post XII/2, p. 598 [useless reproduction])
Hunts: [Ms Madrid Biblioteca del Palacio] Anon. 15th century. Cavalcade of hunters, from Libro de la Montería. Madrid, Biblioteca del Palacio. manuscript illumination. At least nine hunters have curved horns. A shepherd with a bagpipe sits in a field and watches the hunters go by. (J. Domínguez Bordona. Miniatura ... Madrid 1962. [Ars hispaniae, 18] fig. 258)
Angels: [Sc La Guardia S Maria de los Reyes] Anon., 15th century. Death, Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin. La Guardia (Alava), S. Maria de los Reyes, main portal, archivolte, tympanum. sculpture. Several musical angels, including one with a bagpipe. (Catalogo monumental de España. Diòcesis de Vitoria, I. Madrid 1967. figs. 107-108, 122, 123)
[Pa private collection] Anon., 15th century. St. Anne Enthroned. private collection. Several musical angels, including one with a bagpipe. (exh Budapest SM, 1946: Old Masters in Hungarian Private Collections. pl. XXV [poor reproduction])
[Lanaja Master Pa] Lanaja Master (op. ca.1425-1445). Coronation of the Virgin. ex Lanaja, Parroquia (destroyed during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39). Six musical angels, including one playing a bagpipe. (Post VI/2, p. 606; Catalogo monumental de España. Huesca. Madrid 1967. fig. 910; Vis. Coll. 376.L224.34[c]2)
Grotesques: [Wsc Seville Cathedral] Sandrer, Nufes (15th century). The Damnation of a Monk. Seville, Cathedral. wood sculpture. Includes a grotesque with a bagpipe. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts 68 [1966] 287 [small reproduction])
Job: [Ms Jerusalem Israel Museum 180/51] Italian (Ebreo-Venetian), ca.1470-75. The Riches of Job, from the Miscellanea Rothschild. Jerusalem, Israel Museum, Ms 180/51, fol. 65. manuscript illumination. Includes a shepherd with a bagpipe. (Imago musicae 7 [1990] 32)
Nativity: [Sc Palermo Palazzo Abatellis] Anon., 15th century. Nativity. Palermo, Palazzo Abatellis. sculpture. Includes a shepherd with a bagpipe. very unimp. (Imago musicae 4 [1988] 76)
[Pr Florentine] Italian (Florentine), ca.1460-70. Coronation of the Virgin, with Seven Scenes from Her Life. engraving. In the Nativity a shepherd has a bagpipe. (Hind Early Italian Engraving. A.I.12, pl. 12 [print in very poor condition}, pl. 13 [modern copy])
[Pa Beffi] Italian (Aruzzi), 15th century. Nativity. Beffi, Chiesa parrocchiale. Includes a shepherd (in the background) holding a bagpipe. (Brown Catalogus. no. 565b [not illustrated])
[Pa Cori Annunziata] Italian (School of Lazio), second quarter, 15th century? Nativity, from scenes from the life of Christ. Cori, Sta. Annunziata. Includes a shepherd with a bagpipe. unimp. (van Marle Development, VIII. p. 398 [fair reproduction])
[Pa Philadelphia Johnson] Italian (Umbrian), mid-15th century. Nativity (part of a predella). Philadelphia, Museum of Art, the John G. Johnson Coll. Includes a shepherd with a bagpipe. (1966 catalog of Italian paintings, cat. no. 16, p. 108; B. Berenson. A Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings [John G. Johnson Collection] ... Italian Paintings. Philadelphia 1913. vol. I, p. not recorded, as Umbrian Follower of Fra Angelico; GBA 70 [1967] 216, as by Master of the Castello Nativity. Photograph after the removal of later repaint)
[Pa private collection] Italian (Florentine), 15th century. Nativity. private collection. Includes a shepherd with a bagpipe (pretty, striped bag). (Vis. Coll. 372.It 115.22N[K])
[Bastian Pa] Bastian, Lazzaro (ca.1425-1512). Nativity, with the Doge Cristoforo Moro as Donor. Philadelphia, Museum of Art, the John G. Johnson Coll. Includes (in the background)a shepherd with a bagpipe. (B. Berenson. A Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings [John G. Johnson Collection] ... Italian Paintings. Philadelphia 1913. vol. I, p. 346, as School of Gantile Bellini, perhaps by Mansueti, "that slavish and untalented follower of Gentile"; John G. Johnson Collection. Catalogue of Italian Painting. Philadelphia 1966. no. 163, p. 99, as by Lazzaro Bastian)
[Biffi Pa] Biffi, Stefano di Zannotto (doc.1415-m.1467/70) or Battista di Stefano Biffi (doc.1443-m.1470). Natifity, from a Triptych. L'Aquila MN. Includes a shepherd holding a bagpipe. (V. Chierici et al. Abruzzo. Milan 1963. fig. 173 [color reproduction]. Calls it "Trittico di Beffi." No further info.)
[Francesco di Gentile Pa] Francesco di Gentile da Fabriano (op. ca.1460-ca.1500). Nativity, from a triptych of the Crucifixion. Matelica, Museo Piersanti. Includes a shepherd in the background with a bagpipe. (Burlington 113 [1971] 425 [useless reproduction])
[Giovanni da Sulmona Pa] Giovanni da Sulmona (doc.1435-40). Nativity. Sulmona MC. Includes a shepherd in the background with a bagpipe. (V. Chierici et al. Abruzzo. Milan 1963. fig. 215 [color reproduction])
[Filippo Lippi Pa] Lippi, Filippo (ca.1406-1469). Nativity/Adoration of the Child, with Saints. Prato, Galleria Communale (ex Chiesa S. Domenico). Figures incude young shepherds with a bagpipe and a rather large, slender, curved horn. (G. Marchini. Filippo Lippi. Milan 1975. fig. 159, fig. 160, [splendid color detail], as a late work, "con larga parte di scuola"; van Marle X [1928] p. 447, as Filippo Lippi and assistant, perhaps Fra Diamante; R. Oertel. Fra Filippo Lippi. Vienna 1942. fig. 111, as with assistants, after 1460; M. Pittaluga. Fillipo Lippi. Firenze 1949. fig. 168. as Fra Filippo and Fra Diamante; Vis. Coll. 372.L6641.22N)
[B Vivarini Pa] Vivarini, Bartolomeo (op.1450-1499). Nativity. Venice, Accademia. includes a shepherd with a bagpipe in the background. (S. Moschini Marconi, ed. Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia. Rome 1955. cat. no. 181, fig. 181b)
Nativity -- Annunciation to the Shepherds: [Ms Florence BN LF 22] Belbello, Luchino (Belbello di Pavia) (doc.1448-1467/67), Assistant. Annunciation to the Shepherds, from the Book of Hours (Offiziolo) of Filippo Maria Visconti. Florence BN, Ms LF22, fol. 18. Includes a prominent shepherd with a bagpipe. (A. Cadei. Belbello. Miniatore Lombardo ... n.p. 1976. fig. 88 [minuscule reproduction])
[Ms Mantua Capitolo della Cattedrale] Belbello, Luchino (Belbello di Pavia) (doc.1448-1467/67). Annunciation to the Shepherds, from a Missal. Mantua, Capitolo della Cattedrale. manuscript illumination. Includes a shepherd holding a bagpipe. (exh Milan, 1958: Arte lombarda dai Visconti agli Sforza. pl. 86 [fine reproduction])
[Cossa School Pa] Cossa, Francesco (1435/36-1477?), School. Annunciation to the Shepherds. Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (originally for the Convento dell'Osservanza, S. Michele in Bosco [Bologna]). Two shepherds dance, accompanied by a shepherd playing a bagpipe. (M. V. Alpatow. Die Dresdner Galerie. Dresden 1966. p. 39 [good deail of the shepherds]; G. Rodloff Hille. Die Dresdner Gemäldegalerie. Munich 1960. p. 14 [poor reproduction]; E. Ruhmer. Francesco del Cossa. Munich 1959. pl. XXIII, as by Cossa and Cocognara?, pl. 61 [fine detail]; Vis. Coll. 372.C828.31A1)
[Delli Pa] Delli, Dello (ca.1404-1464/70). Nativity. Salamanca, Old Cathedral. Includes an Annunciation to the Shepherds in the background with shepherds holding bagpipe and shawm. (Vis. Coll. 372.D387.20[a]7)
Nativity -- Adoration of the Magi: [Pa private collection] Italian (Venetian), 15th century. Adoration of the Magi. private collection. Includes a shepherd with a bagpipe (retouched?). (Vis. Coll. 372.It 115.22A[e])
[Botticelli Pa] Botticelli, Sandro (ca.1445-1510). Adoration of the Magi. London NG. Includes a shepherd at the far right carrying a bagpipe. (R. Lightbown. Sandro Botticelli. Vol. I: Life and Works. Berkeley CA 1978. pl. 8 [fair reproduction]; Vol. II: Complete Catalogue. cat. B4, p. 20; R. Lightbown. Sandro Botticelli. Life and Work. New York 1989. pl. 7 [ok color reproduction], as ca.1465 (p. 27 as begun ca.1467 and completed some time later); Vis. Coll. 372.B655.22A[b])
Joachim, Annunciation to: [Gozzoli Fr] Gozzoli, Benozzo (ca.1421-1497), and Assistants. The Angel Appearing to Joachim, from the Tabernacle of the Visitation (1491). Castelfiorentino, Biblioteca Comunale. Includes a prominent shepherd playing a bagpipe. (D. C. Ahl. Benozzo Gozzoli. New Haven 1996. p. 193, as by an "assistant of Benozzo Gozzoli"; Vis. Coll.G748.31B6, as by Gozzoli and assistants)
Pan: [Ms Florence Medicea Laurenziana Ashburn 1166] Anon., 15th century. "Pan silvanus." Florence, Bibl. Medicea Laurenziana, Ms Ashburn 1166, fol. 18r. Pan has a bagpipe. (Imago musicae 7 [1990] 79)
[Ms El Escorial] Italian, 15th century. The Meeting of Tityrus and Meliboeus, from Virgil, Eclogue I. El Escorial. manuscript ilumination. Tityrus (a shepherd) has a bagpipe. (El Escorial ... Madrid 1967. fig. 231)
[Ms Florence Riccardiana 492] Apollonio di Giovanni (1417-1465), attr. Tityrus and Meliboeus, from Virgil, Eclogues. Florence, Bibl. Riccardiana, Ms. 492, fol. 1. Tityrus (a shepherd) has a bagpipe. (Miess 1974. fig. 225; Imago musicae 7 [1990] 33)
Playing Cards: [Zoppo Pr] Zoppo, Marco (ca.1433-1478), attr. "Mato" [Matto/Joker], one of the so-called Sola-Busca Tarocchi. engraving. A fool (matto) has a bagpipe. (E. Ruhmer. Marco Zoppo. Vicenza 1966. fig. 28)
Triumph/Victory: [Pr Florentine] Florentine (popular artist), ca.1460-70. The Triumph of Chastity. engraving. Includes putti perched on spheres on the four corners of Chastity's float, playing bagpipe, folded trumpet, shallow frame drum and nakers. (Hind Early Italian Engraving. A.I.19, pl. 19; van Marle, Iconographie, II, p. 114)
[Pr Florentine] Florentine (popular artist), ca.1460-70. The Triumphs of Petrarch (Six Subjects in one Plate). engraving. The Triumph of Chastity includes putti perched on shperes on the four corners of Chastity's float, playing bagpipe, trumpet, shallow frame drum and nakers. Obviously based on other fifteenth-century Florentine engravings. (Hind Early Italian Engraving. A.I.24, pl. 24; van Marle, Iconographie, II, p. 116)
Other: [Pr Ferrarese] Anon. (Ferrarese), ca.1479-80. Three Allegorical Figures. engraving. A man, sitting on a chamber pot, plays a bagpipe. A woman draws yarn from a spindle and a man carves. (Hind Early Italian Engraving. E.III.29, pl. 421)
Street Scenes: [Pa Milan Poldi Pezzoli] Italian (Lombard), 15th century. Nativity? Milan, Museo Poldi Pezzoli. Includes musicians in a town street in the background, one of whom plays a bagpipe. (F. Malaguzzi Valeri. La Corte di Lodovico il Moro, I. Milan 1913. p. 603 [useless reproduction])
Angels: [Sc Perugia San Bernardino] Agostino di Duccio (1418-p.1481). Apparition of San Bernardino. Perugia, Oratorio di San Bernardino, portal, tympanon/facade. Eight musical angels, including two with bagpipes. (R. A. Gallenga-Stuart. Perugia. Bergamo 1907. [Italia artistica, 15]. pp. 98 [poor reproduction of the whole], 100-101 [details]; A. K. Wickham. The Italian Renaissance. New York 1934. pl. 46 [good detail of the group at the left], as 1457-61; Tesori d'arte cristiana, IV: Il rinascimento. Bologna 1966-68. pp. 171, 174, 176 [details of the angels])
[Sc Rimini Malatestiano] Agostino d'Antonio di Duccio (1418-m.a.1498). Angels. Rimini, Tempio Malatestiano, Cappella di Isotta. sculpture. Angels play two fiddles, bagpipe and S-trumpet. (Tesori d'arte cristiana, IV: Il rinascimento. Bologna 1966-68. p. 71 [fine color reproduction])
[Pr Florentine] Italian (Florentine), ca.1460-70. Death and Assumption of the Virgin, with Other Scenes from Her Life. engraving. Angels play fiddle, lute, psaltery and bagpipe. (Hind Early Italian Engraving. A.I.11, pl. 11)
[Pr Florentine] Italian (Florentine), ca.1460-70. Coronation of the Virgin, with Seven Scenes from Her Life. engraving. In the Death and Assumption of the Virgin one of the six musical angels plays a bagpipe. (Hind Early Italian Engraving. pl. 12 [print in very poor condition], pl. 13 [modern copy])
[Pa art market] Italian, 15th century. Virgin and Child with St. Anne. Florence, Galleria Bellini. Angels play two lutes, bagpipe and shawm. unimp. (Vis. Coll. 372.It.115.34[nn])
[Andrea da Giona Sc] Andrea da Giona (doc.1434-1484) Christ with in a Mandorla Surrounded by Angels (1434). New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. marble altarpiece. Eight musical angels, including one playing a bagpipe. (Metropolitain Museum of Art Bulletin 46 [Winter 1988-89] pp. 13 [fine color reproduction], 12 [detail, including the bagpipe])
[Jacopo Bellini Circle Dr] Bellini, Jacopo (ca.1400-ca.1471), Circle. Music-Making Angels. Düsseldorf, Staatliche Kunstakademie. drawing. One of them plays a bagpipe. (I. Budde. Beschreibender Katalog der Handzeichnungen in der Staatlichen Kunstkalle, Düsseldorf. Düsseldorf 1930. no. 570, pl.81 [small reproduction])
[Bembo Fr] Bembo, Bonifacio (doc.1447-1478). Angels. Cremona, S. Agostino, Cappella Cavalcabò. fresco. Includes an angel holding a bagpipe. (Arte Lombarda 10 [1965] 68 [details])
[Benvenuto da Siena Pa] Benvenuto da Siena/Benvenuto di Giovanni (di Meo del Guasta) (1436-ca.1518). Assumption of the Virgin. Asciano, S. Sebastiano. Many musical angels, including one with a bagpipe. (Vis. Coll. 372.B449.31As)
[Boccatis Pa] Boccatis, Giovanni (ca.1420-p.1480). Virgin and Child with Musical Angels ("Madonna dell'orchestra"). Perugia, Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria. Eight angels play musical instruments, including a bagpipe. (G. Cecchini. La Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria in Perugia. 1932. p. 84 [poor reproduction]; C. Gamba. Pittura umbra del Rinascimento: Raffaello. Novara 1949. pl. 5 [adequate reproduction]; E. Jacobsen. Umbrische Malerei des 14., 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts ... Strasbourg 1914, pl. 7; MGG vol. XV, Taf. 11; Musica calendar 1977: 25-31 December [color reproduction]; Vis. Coll. 372.B 634.34[f])
[Botticelli School Dr] Botticelli, Sandro (ca. 1445-1510), School. Coronation of the Virgin. Florence Uffizi. drawing. Ten musical angels, including one playing a bagpipe. A quick, pretty sketch. (Vis. Coll. 372d.B 6551.31C[a])
[Botticini Pa] Botticini, Francesco (ca. 1446-1497) and Raffaelo Botticini (b.1477-doc. to 1520). Seven Musical Angels. Empoli, Galleria della Collegiata. One of the angels plays a bagpipe. (Vis. Coll. 372.B658.36[a])
[Finiguerra Copy Pr] Florentine 15th-century copy of a niello attr. Maso Finiguerra (1426-1464). Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints and Angels. niello. Eight musical angels. The four in the "loud" ensemble play bagpipe, two shawms and a proto trombone. The four in the "soft" ensemble play fiddle, lute, tambourine (undetailed rim) and cymbals. A good example of the contrast between haut and bas. (IB vol. 24, no. 1, p. 225, as attr. Finiguerra) Cf. the print reproduced in J. Levenson et al. Early Italian Engravings from the National Gallery of Art. Washington 1973. p. 533 [fine reproduction of a late (probably 18th century) impression]. As Anon. Florentine, ca. 1450-70 -- "a copy of a niello by th hand which we call Maso Finiguerra." The prints are not the same. The one reproduced in IB vol. 24 is clearer of the bagpipe and the general playing position.)
[Foppa Pa] Foppa, Vincenzo (1427/30-1515/16). Assumption of the Virgin. Milan, S. Eustorgio, Portinari Chapel. Numerous musical angels, including one playing a bagpipe. (J. Ffoulkes. Vincenzo Foppa. London n.d. opp. p. 68 [poor reproduction])
[Gatta Pa] Gatta, Bartolommeo della (1448-1502/03). Assumption of the Virgin. Cortona, Certosa di San Domenico. Numerous musical angels, including one playing a bagpipe. (V. [?] Pasquini. Di Bartolommeo della Gatta ... Arezzo 1926. fig. 14 [poor reproduction]; Arte illustrata 3 [Oct.-Dec. 1970] 5; Vis. Coll. 372.B2835.31As)
[Giovanni di Paolo Pa] Giovanni di Paolo (1403-1482/83). Assumption of the Virgin. Asciano, Collegiata. Among the many musical angels, one plays a bagpipe. (van Marle Development, vol. 9, p. 456 [fair reproduction]; Vis. Coll. 372.G439y.31As)
[Giovanni di Paolo Pa] _______. Assumption of the Virgin. Siena, Pinacoteca. Several musical angels including one playing a bagpipe. (C. Brandi. Giovanni di Paolo. Florence 1947. fig. 76, as 1475)
[Filippo Lippi Pa] Lippi, Filippo (ca.1406-1469). Coronation of the Virgin. Rome, Vatican, Pinacoteca. Six musical angels, including one holding a bagpipe. (Art Treasures of the Vatican. Englewood Cliffs NJ 1974. fig. 358; Vis. Coll. 372.L664.31C[a])
[Filippo Lippi Pa] _______. Coronation of the Virgin. Spoleto, Cathedral. Among the numerous musical angels, one plays a bagpipe. (G. Marchini. Filippo Lippi. Milan 1975. fig. 168, as 1467-68.; van Marle Development, vol. 10, pp. 451, 452; M. Pittaluga. Filippo Lippi. Florence 1949. fig. 181, 186; Vis. Coll. 372.L664.30[a]1)
[Macchiavelli Pa] Macchiavelli, Jacopo di Piero (Zanobi Machiavelli) (ca.1418-1479). Coronation of the Virgin. Dijon MBA. Among the numerous angels, one plays a bagpipe. (Winternitz Musical Instruments, pl. 68)
[Master of Fucecchio Pa] Master of Fucecchio (op. mid-15th century). Angels. San Giovanni Valdarno, S. Maria delle Grazie. Among the numerous musical angels, one plays a bagpipe. (R. Fremantle. Florentine Gothic Painters ... London 1975. p. 552; Vis. Coll. 372.It 115.36[a], as Italian, 15th century.)
[Matteo di Giovanni Pa] Matteo di Giovanni (ca.1435-1495). Assumption of the Virgin. London, National Gallery. Among the many musical angels, one plays a bagipe. (A. Gentili, W. Barcham and L. Whiteley. Paintings in the National Gallery, London. Boston 2000. p. 58 [ok color reproducton], as 1490-95; 1951 catalog [M. Davies]: The Earlier Italian Schools. no. 1155, p. 222; K. Meyer Baer. Music of the Spheres ... Princeton 1970. p. 167 [fair reproduction]; Vis. Coll. 372.M429.31As[b])
[Pietro di Giovanni Pa] Pietro di Giovanni (doc. 1428-1447), attr. Assumption of the Virgin. Esztergom, Keresztény Museum. Among the numerous musical angels, one plays a bagpipe. (Brown no. 431 [useless reproduction]; H. W. van Os. Marias Demut und Verherrlichung in der sienesischen Malerei. 's-Gravenhage 1969. pl. 20; Vis. Coll. 372.P6273.31As)
[Sano di Pietro Pa] Sano di Pietro (1406-1481). Assumption of the Virgin. Siena PN. Six musical angels, including one with a bagpipe. (Brown Catalogus. no. 465 [minuscule reproduction]; E. Carli. Chefs d'oeuvre de l'art siennois. Milan 1952. pl. CXX, as before 1444; E. Carli. Sassetta. Milan 1957. pl. 143; Early Music 17 [1989] 308)
[Santi Pa] Santi (Santini), Giovanni (ca.1430/40-1494). Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints, Donor and Angels. Pian de Meleto, Chiesa di Montefiorentino, Capella Oliva. Six musical angels in a sort of gallery behind the throne, including one playing a bagpipe. (R. Dubois. Giovanni Santi. Bordeaux 1971. pl. IX [fair reproduction]; TCI. Marche. Milan 1953. [Attraverso l'Italia, 19] p. 92, as signed and dated 1489; P. Zampetti. La pittura marchigiana da Gentile a Raffaello. Venice [197-]. fig. 168; Vis. Coll. 372.Sa57.34[b], as by Santi and Evangelista di Pian de Meleto)
[Sassetta Pa] Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) (1400?-1450), and others. Assumption of the Virgin. ex Berlin, Kaiser Friedrich Museum (destroyed in 1945). A myriad of musical angels, including one playing a bagpipe. (E. Carli. Sassetta ... Milan 1957. pl. 73; Kinsky. p. 70 [poor reproduction]; Burlington 94 [1952] 347 [minuscule reproduction])
[Sassetta Fr] _______. Angels. Siena, Porta Romana. fresco. Includes an angel playing a bagpipe. (E. Carli. Sassetta ... Milan 1957. pll. 74 etc ; Kinsky. p. 70 [poor reproduction])
[Vecchietta Fr] Vecchietta (Lorenzo di Pietro) (ca.1432-1480). Angels. Siena, Baptistery. fresco. Many musical angels, including one playing a bagpipe. (G. Vigni. Lorenzo di Pietro, detto il Viecchietta. Florence 1937. p. not recorded. As Viecchietta and assistants, as Gloria di Maria, Siena, S. Giovanni; Vis. Coll. 372.V499.19[d]7) [Zoppo Pa] Zoppo, Marco (ca.1433-1478). Virgin and Child with Angels. Paris Louvre. Includes an angel with a bagpipe. (M. Bonicatti. Aspetti dell'umanesimò nella pittura Veneta dal 1455 al 1515. Rome 1964. fig. 22; F. Drey. Carlo Crivelli und seine Schule. Munich. 1927. p. not recorded; E. Ruhmer. Marco Zoppo. Vicenza 1966. fig. 5, as ca.1455; Gazette des Beaux-Arts 97 [March 1981] La chronique des arts no. 1346, p. 3 [minuscule reproduction] [notice of acquisition]; Vis. Coll. 372.Z78.34[c])
Children: [A della Robbia Sc] della Robbia, Andrea (1435-1525). A Boy Playing a Bagpipe. London V&A. sculpture. (1964 catalog: Italian Sculpture. p. not recorded)
Fools: See also Allegory, Playing Cards.
Grotesques: [Me Tivoli] Anon., 15th century. Grotesque with a Bagpipe. Tivoli, Cathedral. silver reliquary. unimp. (A. Rossi. Tivoli. Bergamo 1909. [Italia artistica, 43]. p. 106)
Itinerant/Street Musicians: [Fr Milan Bicocca] Anon., 15th century. Pifferari. Milan, Villa Bicocca. fresco (fragment, badly worn). They are rather well-dressed fellows playing bagpipe and shawm. (F. Malaguzzi Valeri. La corte di Lodovico il Mori, I. Milan 1913. p. 602)
Putti: See also Allegory, Triumph/Victory.
[Pr Anon] Italian (possibly Ferrarese), ca.1470-80. The Virgin and Child Enthroned. engraving. Includes putti playing lute and bagpipe. (Hind Early Italian Engraving. E.III.35, pl. 425)
[Pr Florentine] Italian (Florentine), ca. 1465-80. A pair of dancers encircled in a wreath with music-making cupids and a reclining couple. engraving. The cupids play bagpipe, oliphant, cymbals, small frame drum, tambourine and triangle. (A. M. Hind. Early Italian Engraving. London 1938, no. A.IV.13, pl. 142, also pl. 158 as part of six plates printed on one sheet; J. Levenson et al. Early Italian Engravings from the National Gallery of Art. Washington 1973. p. 14. As by Baccio Baldini [m.1487]. A. P. de Mirimonde. Astrologie et musique. Geneva 1977. pl. 93; exh Paris 1957. Les incunables sur bois et sur métal de la collection Edmond de Rothschild au Musée du Louvre. pl. XVII. With cartouche below and four portrait medallions.; Gazette des Beaux-Arts 68 [1966] 284 [small reproduction])
[Pr Florentine] Florentine, ca. 1465-80. Portrait of an old couple (with banner: "Dammi conforto") encircled in a wreath with music-making cupids. engraving. The cupids play bagpipe, oliphant, folded trumpet, small drum, tambourine, triangle, cymbals and nakers. (IB vol. 24, no. 6, p. 209 [defective impression]; Hind Early Italian Engraving. A. IV.14, pl. 143 [defective impression])
[Pr Florentine] Anon. (Florentine), ca.1460-70. Cupids at the Vintage. engraving. A putto above, in an arbor, plays a shawm; and a putto below plays a bagpipe. (Hind Early Italian Engraving. no. A.II.13, pl. 98)
[Pr Florentine] Anon. (Florentine), ca. 1460-70. Cupids at the Vintage. engraving. A putto above, in an arbor, plays a shawm. Putti in the foreground play bagpipe, pipe and tabor and straight trumpet. (Hind Early Italian Engraving. no. A.II.14, pl. 99)
[Montórfano Pa] Montórfano, Giovanni Donato da (1440-1510). Virgin and Child Enthroned with the Dead Christ, Saints and Donors. Milan, S. Pietro in Gessate, Cappella di San Antonio. The painting depicts carved relief putti on columns playing fiddle, lute, bagpipe (?) and tambourine (?). Below the throne a putto plays a harp. (Burlington 111 [1969] opp. p. 76 [poor reproduction])
[Pollaiolo School Pr] Pollaiolo, Antonio del (ca.1443-1498), School. The Abduction of Helen/"Elena rapita da Paris." engraving. Includes a frieze of garland-toting putti accompanied by other putti playing a bagpipe and a curved, fingered horn. (van Marle Iconographie. vol. I, p. 21 [fair reproduction])
Shepherds: See also Literary and Historical Subjects/Figures.
[Wsc Abruzzo MN] Anon, mid-15th century. Bagpiping Shepherd. Abruzzo MN (formerly Altessa, Chiesa Parrocchiale). polychromed wood presepe figure. (1968 catalog, p. 142)
[Vecchietta Pa] Vecchietta (Lorenzo di Petro) (ca.1413-1480). The Legend of St. Catherine of Siena. Berlin SMPK. The Adoration of the Child, with a shepherd with a bagpipe. (Marburg 191 780)
[Ms Pavia Mardemercantili] Anon. 15th century. Bagpipe. Pavia, Museo de Mardemercantili. manuscript drawing (margin). (F. Malaguzzi Valeri. La corte di Ludovico il Moro, I. Milan 1913. p. 223)