Europe history: associated pipes

one-handed pipe

It is not always obvious which type of pipe is being played in some of the iconography.

 

Greek/Roman lead figure 2nd to 8th century Jordan 11th century Catalonia, Spain end 13th century, Teruel Cathedral, Spain 14th/15th century Pamplona, Spain 14th - 16th century Cyprus
1408 France 1410-1414 Paris, France, Mercury playing double pipes France, stone carving 1410-20 player and Mercury 1415 Belgium 1418 Paris, France 1418-1425 shepherd France f.85v
1459 Florence, Italy late 15th century Bruges, Belgium page xi 1450-1475 France 15th century, Mercury Flanders, Belgium Tarot card, Mercury
1465 Italy not a tarot card 'poetry' 1470-80 Tarot card 'Poetry'   1511 female player, Tours, France 1511 female player in a prayer book, France 1517 Germany
1544-1552 Basel, Switzerland	1600-1625 Italy, putti on cloud	Royal Palace of Madrid, Spain
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1753 Helmstädt, Germany book frontispiece early 19th century France     1841 England: Concert of the Alpine Singers at the Assembly Rooms:Norwich Mercury - Saturday 22 May 1841 1900 child with pipe and hobby-horse by Hans Boesch, Germany 1900 'dancing faun' Luxemburg Gardens, Paris, France
Dance of Death Images
15th century Augsburger, Bavaria, Germany
1440 The Doctor, Switzerland	1448-53 Bern Cathedral, Switzerland
The Emperor Wellcome Library, London  1617 The Young man 1825-1851 The Young Man
Salzbergen, Germany 1830 Martinskapelle (chapel of Saint Martin), Elbigenalp, Tyrol, Austria

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