A 1493 woodcut from the workshop of Michel Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, an illustration from Hartmann Schedel's Liber Chronicarum (the Nuremberg Chronicle), showing Pope Innocent I within a decorative floral border, wearing the papal tiara and holding an open Bible and a staff with a double cross, with a halo marking his sainthood. The printed inscription names him. Held today by the Rijksmuseum.
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Classification
Object TypePrint (Engraving, Etching, Woodcut or Lithograph) 1 Physical Form
MediumWoodcut, Wolgemut/Pleydenwurff workshop, 1493, Rijksmuseum 1 Medium (class) Connections
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Source Paus Innocentius I, Rijksmuseum (Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493)
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The Rijksmuseum's own printed inscription on the Nuremberg Chronicle leaf names Pope Innocent I.
Source Paus Innocentius I, Rijksmuseum (Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493)
Sources
1. Paus Innocentius I, Rijksmuseum (Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493)
Rijksmuseum- Rijksmuseum RP-P-2016-49-59-10
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A 1493 woodcut from the workshop of Michel Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, an illustration from Hartmann Schedel's Liber Chronicarum (the Nuremberg Chronicle), showing Pope Innocent I within a decorative floral border, wearing the papal tiara and holding an open Bible and a staff with a double cross, with a halo marking his sainthood.
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