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Portrait of John Cassian (Rijksmuseum, atelier of Michel Wolgemut, 1493)

Woodcut, Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493, Rijksmuseum

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A woodcut portrait of John Cassian, made for Hartmann Schedel's Liber Chronicarum, the Nuremberg Chronicle, printed in 1493. Cassian carried the practice of the Egyptian desert into the Latin west, founding monastic houses at Marseille and writing the Institutes and the Conferences that Benedict's Rule tells monks to read. Held today by the Rijksmuseum.

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John Cassian, Figures

The Rijksmuseum's own inscribed title names John Cassian as the subject of this Nuremberg Chronicle woodcut.

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