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Pope Urban II Preaching the First Crusade (Rijksmuseum, Luyken, 1683)

Christian Art

An etching by the Dutch printmaker Jan Luyken showing Pope Urban II preaching the sermon that called the First Crusade, made in Amsterdam in 1683 as an illustration to a history of the crusades. Held today by the Rijksmuseum.

Facts
Classification
Object Type
Print (Engraving, Etching, Woodcut or Lithograph) 1
Physical Form
Medium
Etching, Jan Luyken, 1683, Rijksmuseum 1
Medium (class)
Etching 1
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Associated With

Amsterdam, Cities

This source names Amsterdam directly: "that called the First Crusade, made in Amsterdam in 1683 as an illustration to a history of the crusades."

Source Paus Urbanus II predikt de eerste kruistocht, Rijksmuseum (Luyken, 1683)

Belongs to Tradition

Source Paus Urbanus II predikt de eerste kruistocht, Rijksmuseum (Luyken, 1683)

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

Urban II, Figures

The Rijksmuseum's own title names Pope Urban II outright as the preacher of the sermon depicted, delivered at Clermont in 1095.

Source Paus Urbanus II predikt de eerste kruistocht, Rijksmuseum (Luyken, 1683)
Sources
1. Paus Urbanus II predikt de eerste kruistocht, Rijksmuseum (Luyken, 1683)
Rijksmuseum
  • Rijksmuseum RP-P-1896-A-19368-407
  • catalogue record, medium/object-type description
    An etching by the Dutch printmaker Jan Luyken showing Pope Urban II preaching the sermon that called the First Crusade, made in Amsterdam in 1683 as an illustration to a history of the crusades.
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