A street altar in Rome, hung with votive offerings, attended by itinerant pipers watched by locals. Watercolour by D.W. Lindau, 1835.
- Lindau, Dietrich Wilhelm, 1799-1862.
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- 1835
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- 38511i
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The pipers (pifferari) seem likely to be identifiable, as types if not as individuals, since there are other pictures which show the same combination of figures playing music before a shrine: examples include a painting by Xaviero della Gatta, sold at Christie's, South Kensington, 3 April 1995 lot 117, and a drawing by Bartolomeo Pinelli, offered for sale at Sotheby's, New York, 28 January 1998 lot 203
A man plays the zampogna or south Italian bagpipe, while the boy in front of him holds a ciaramella (chanter or shawm). "The principal bagpipe is the zampogna, native to the south and to Sicily (where the name is cornamusa) but often heard in the north played by itinerant players. ...There are two main types of zampogna: one is played alone, the other accompanies a conical chanter (ciaramella, cornamusina, occasionally piffaro) which a second player blows directly with his mouth. ... The two-man teams, zampognari or pifferari, make a practice of coming into the towns at the Christmas season to serenade the images of the infant Christ set up at the roadside."--Grove music online, s.v. Bagpipe 7̂: other countries (iii) Italy
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