A woodcut portrait of Pope Boniface IV, made for Hartmann Schedel's Liber Chronicarum, the Nuremberg Chronicle, printed in 1493. Boniface IV is remembered chiefly for obtaining the Pantheon from the Byzantine emperor Phocas and consecrating it as a church, the first of Rome's great pagan temples turned to Christian worship. Held today by the Rijksmuseum.
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Classification
Object TypePrint (Engraving, Etching, Woodcut or Lithograph) 1 Physical Form
MediumWoodcut, Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493, Rijksmuseum 1 Medium (class) Connections
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This source names The Pantheon directly: "Boniface IV is remembered chiefly for obtaining the Pantheon from the Byzantine emperor Phocas and consecrating it as a church, the first of Rome's great pagan temples turned to Christian worship."
Source Paus Bonifatius IV, Rijksmuseum (atelier of Michel Wolgemut, 1493)
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Source Paus Bonifatius IV, Rijksmuseum (atelier of Michel Wolgemut, 1493)
Depicts
The Rijksmuseum's own inscribed title names Pope Boniface IV as the subject of this Nuremberg Chronicle woodcut.
Source Paus Bonifatius IV, Rijksmuseum (atelier of Michel Wolgemut, 1493)
Sources
1. Paus Bonifatius IV, Rijksmuseum (atelier of Michel Wolgemut, 1493)
Rijksmuseum- Rijksmuseum RP-P-2016-49-60-3
catalogue record, medium/object-type description
A woodcut portrait of Pope Boniface IV, made for Hartmann Schedel's Liber Chronicarum, the Nuremberg Chronicle, printed in 1493.
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