Creator Abadía, Juan de la

Medium Artwork: Painting

City Jaca | Region Valencia | Old kingdom Aragon

ARTWORK
Juan de la Abadía, el viejo? ‘Madonna and Child with angel musicians’ Aragonese School. Dated 1485-1495. Jaca, Museo Diocesano. Oil on canvas. Height: 149.5 cm (58.8 in); Width: 95.5 cm (37.5 in)
Juan de la Abadía, el viejo, active 1471-1498/1499 when he died (postHSP, vol. XII, part 2, pp. 706-708).

INSTRUMENT
Long-necked vihuela de mano with cornered waists, oval body, strings represented imprecisely. Plucked with fingers in thumb-in position, with forearm parallel to the strings, as in medieval plectrum style. Left-hand shows a chord grip using the thumb to stop strings as well as the fingers.

IMAGE
Wikimedia commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Virgen_con_el_Niño,_de_Juan_de_la_Abad%C3%ADa_el_Viejo_(Museo_Diocesano_de_Jaca).jpg. Public domain.
Photo here is from Arte-Paisaje / Blog de José Antonio Tolosa / domingo, 18 de noviembre de 2018
Virgen con el Niño (Juan de la Abadía “el viejo”)
https://arte-paisaje.blogspot.com/2018/11/virgen-con-el-nino-juan-de-la-abadia-el.html

Corona-Alcalde, Antonio. “L’organologie de la vihuela”. Aux origines de la guitare: la vihuela de mano. Ed. Joël Dugot. Paris: Musée de la Musique, 2004. 16-28.

Woodfield, Ian. The Early History of the Viol. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Corona-Alcalde, Antonio. “L’organologie de la vihuela”. Aux origines de la guitare: la vihuela de mano. Ed. Joël Dugot. Paris: Musée de la Musique, 2004. 16-28.

Post, Chandler Rathfon A History of Spanish Painting. 14 vols. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1930-1966; rpt New York: Kraus Reprint, 1970-1976.

Woodfield, Ian. The Early History of the Viol. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.