A Wikipedia article on Augustine of Hippo, the bishop and theologian whose Confessions and City of God shaped Western Christian thought. The article documents his standard iconography in Western art, a mitred bishop holding a book and often a pierced or flaming heart, the same devotional convention later works such as museum-held angel-attended portraits of him continue. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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A crowd-edited tertiary reference, used here to confirm the standard bishop-and-book portrait convention Augustine belongs to, independently corroborated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's own catalogue naming and describing an actual drawing made under that convention. Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo
Source Typeencyclopedia
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This source names Augustine of Hippo directly: "A Wikipedia article on Augustine of Hippo, the bishop and theologian whose Confessions and City of God shaped Western Christian thought."
Source Augustine of Hippo (Wikipedia)
Claims Backed By This Source (7 claims)
This source backs 7 claims across the atlas. As facts: 5 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds.
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- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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