Editing Recorder (musical instrument) (section)

===== Iconography =====
Recorders with a cylindrical profile are  depicted in many medieval paintings; however, their representions appear stylised, and do not easily correspond to surviving instruments. The earliest depiction of the recorder is probably in "The Mocking of Christ", a painting from the monastery church of St George in Staro Nagoričano near [[Kumanovo]], [[North Macedonia|Macedonia]], in which a man is playing a cylindrical recorder. (The painting of the church began in 1315.) And there is the center pan el of the "Virgin and Child", attributed to Pedro (Pere) Serra (c. 1390), as painted for the church of Santa Clara, [[Tortosa]], Spain and now in the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, [[Barcelona]]—a group of angels gathered around the Virgin Mary, playing musical instruments, one of them playing a cylindrical recorder.<ref name=":7" />

Starting in the Middle Ages, angels have frequently been depicted as playing one or more recorders, often grouped around the Virgin; and, in several notable paintings, ''trios'' of angels play recorders. Such is perhaps a sign of the trinity, although perhaps of the music itself, which also was typically in three parts.<ref name=":7" />