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Music cabinet and piano with a relic of St Cecilia
Pierre Cuypers, the Rijksmuseum architect, designed these pieces of furniture as engagement and wedding presents for his second wife. The Gothic Revival style and the reliquary on the piano express their deep-rooted Catholicism. The images on the piano case – the Annunciation and scenes from the life of St Cecilia, patron saint of music – allude to the difficult choice of Cuypers’ wife between mar…
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/11HH(CECILIA)411
- http://iconclass.org/73A52
- http://iconclass.org/11HH(CATHERINE)
- http://iconclass.org/11HH(THERESA)
- Alberdingk Thijm, Antoinette Catharine Thérèse
- Cuypers, Pierre Joseph Hubert
Type of item
- furniture
- Furniture
Medium
- Gift of P.J.H. Cuypers, Roermond
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/11HH(CECILIA)411
- http://iconclass.org/73A52
- http://iconclass.org/11HH(CATHERINE)
- http://iconclass.org/11HH(THERESA)
- Alberdingk Thijm, Antoinette Catharine Thérèse
- Cuypers, Pierre Joseph Hubert
Type of item
- furniture
- Furniture
Medium
- Gift of P.J.H. Cuypers, Roermond
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
Creation date
- c.1858 - c.1859
Place-Time
- third quarter 19th century
Places
- Roermond
- urn:rijksmuseum:thesaurus:RM0001.THESAU.22958
- Roermond
- urn:rijksmuseum:thesaurus:RM0001.THESAU.22958
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.328523
- BK-1996-8
Extent
- height 205.5 cm
- width 103 cm
- depth 56.5 cm
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collectie: meubelen
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T13:45:27.654Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T13:07:17.231Z