# St Cecilia Playing a Lute [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GENTILESCHI, Artemisia]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 108 x 79 cm ## Commentary St Cecilia Playing a Lute c. 1616 Oil on canvas, 108 x 79 cm Galleria Spada, Rome The attribution of this painting has been questioned in the past. The name of Titian, Angelo Caroselli, Giovanni Baglione and Rutilio Manetti have been suggested, but now most scholars accept the picture as the work of Artemisia Gentileschi. Although the figure plays the lute in the painting, the presence of a portable organ behind her confirms the identification of the subject as St Cecilia. <P> <TABLE ALIGN=LEFT CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=1 WIDTH=320 BGCOLOR="\#99CCCC"> <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE><TD><IMG SRC="/support/gif/listen.gif" BORDER=0 VALIGN=MIDDLE> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 2 minutes\):<BR><A HREF="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/schubert/schubert\_d905\_laute.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><B>Franz Schubert: An die Laute \(To the Lute\) D 905</B></A> </TD></TR></TABLE> ## Related artworks - [Bathsheba at her Bath]() - [Bathsheba]() - [Birth of St John the Baptist]() - [Clio, the Muse of History]() - [Danaë \(detail\)]() - [Danaë]() - [Jael and Sisera]() - [Judith and Her Maidservant]() - [Judith Beheading Holofernes \(detail\)]() - [Judith Beheading Holofernes]() - [Judith Beheading Holofernes]() - [Judith Beheading Holofernes]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()