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Pope Gregory VII (Rijksmuseum, Wolgemut Workshop, 1493)

Woodcut, workshop of Michel Wolgemut, 1493, Nuremberg Chronicle, Rijksmuseum

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A woodcut portrait of Pope Gregory VII, wearing the papal tiara and holding a staff topped with a double cross, printed in 1493 from the workshop of Michel Wolgemut as part of the succession of popes in Hartmann Schedel's Liber Chronicarum, the Nuremberg Chronicle. The plate's own printed text names him. Held today by the Rijksmuseum.

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Gregory VII, Figures

The plate's own inscribed text identifies the pope shown as Gregorius VII, and the Rijksmuseum's own record confirms it.

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