The likeness of Christ : the background of a sixteenth-century icon

Author

Whitfield, J. H.

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Apollo. 1992, Num. 360, Vol. 135, 112-114, 5 ill. (1 col.)

ISSN

0003-6536

Abstract (en)

Discusses a type of mid-16th c. English icon portrait of Christ in profile with a lengthy inscription filling the lower half of the image. Both image and inscription, it is here argued, derive from one of a series of medals produced in Rome in the 1490s. These medal portraits of Christ bore a Latin inscription saying they derived from an emerald intaglio with portraits of Christ and S. Paul sent to Pope Innocent VIII by Bajazet II. There is no record of the intaglio's existence.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- Pictorial arts -- Painting and drawing -- United Kingdom
• Painting
• Icons
• Great Britain
• 1500-1600
• Portraits
• Jesus Christ
• Inscriptions
• Medals
• Italy
• Roma (ITA)
• Intaglios
• Emeralds
• Innocent VIII, pope, 1432-1492
• Bāyazīd II, sultan of Turkey, 1448-1512

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Peinture et dessin -- Royaume-Uni
• Peinture
• Icône
• Grande-Bretagne
• 1500-1600
• Portrait
• Christ
• Inscription
• Médaille
• Italie
• Roma (ITA)
• Intaille
• Emeraude
• Innocent VIII, pape, 1432-1492
• Bāyazīd II, sultan de Turquie, 1448-1512

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19921001-00431169

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