A wood engraving by Richard Brend'amour, after Alfred Rethel's fresco cycle in Aachen's coronation hall, showing Pope Leo III crowning Charlemagne as emperor on 25 December 800. Made in 1870 as part of a portfolio reproducing the fresco cycle. Held today by the Rijksmuseum.
Facts
Classification
Object TypePrint (Engraving, Etching, Woodcut or Lithograph) 1 Physical Form
MediumWood engraving, Richard Brend'amour after Alfred Rethel, 1870, Rijksmuseum 1 Medium (class) Connections
Associated With
This source names Charlemagne directly: "hall, showing Pope Leo III crowning Charlemagne as emperor on 25 December 800."
Source Kroning van Karel de Grote door paus Leo III, Rijksmuseum (Brend'amour, 1870)
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Source Kroning van Karel de Grote door paus Leo III, Rijksmuseum (Brend'amour, 1870)
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.
Depicts
The Rijksmuseum's own title names Pope Leo III outright as the pope who crowns Charlemagne in the scene depicted.
Source Kroning van Karel de Grote door paus Leo III, Rijksmuseum (Brend'amour, 1870)
Sources
1. Kroning van Karel de Grote door paus Leo III, Rijksmuseum (Brend'amour, 1870)
Rijksmuseum- Rijksmuseum RP-P-OB-22.457
catalogue record, medium/object-type description
A wood engraving by Richard Brend'amour, after Alfred Rethel's fresco cycle in Aachen's coronation hall, showing Pope Leo III crowning Charlemagne as emperor on 25 December 800.
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