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.
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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."
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- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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