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Portrait of Pope Julius II (Rijksmuseum, after Tobias Stimmer, 1549-1573)

Christian Art

A woodcut portrait of Pope Julius II, after a design by Tobias Stimmer, made between 1549 and 1573. It illustrated Onofrio Panvinio's "Accuratae Effigies Pontificum Maximorum," a systematic album of papal portraits published in Strasbourg in 1573. Held today by the Rijksmuseum.

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Classification
Object Type
Print (Engraving, Etching, Woodcut or Lithograph) 1
Physical Form
Medium
Woodcut, after Tobias Stimmer, 1549 to 1573, Rijksmuseum 1
Medium (class)
Woodcut 1
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Belongs to Tradition

Derived: this work depicts a figure already recorded as belonging to this tradition; the work-to-tradition link is inferred from that live depicts edge and the figures own attested tradition affiliation, not independently sourced beyond it.

Source Portret van paus Julius II, Rijksmuseum (after Tobias Stimmer, 1549-1573)

Depicts

Julius II, Figures

The Rijksmuseum's own title names Pope Julius II as the subject of this papal-portrait album leaf.

Source Portret van paus Julius II, Rijksmuseum (after Tobias Stimmer, 1549-1573)
Sources
1. Portret van paus Julius II, Rijksmuseum (after Tobias Stimmer, 1549-1573)
Rijksmuseum
  • Rijksmuseum RP-P-1874-12-101-1
  • catalogue record, medium/object-type description
    A woodcut portrait of Pope Julius II, after a design by Tobias Stimmer, made between 1549 and 1573.
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