A Wikipedia article on John Calvin, the French Reformer whose Institutes of the Christian Religion shaped Reformed theology from his base in Geneva. The article documents that Calvin, at his own request, was buried in an unmarked grave to avoid a personal cult, so his likeness reaches later generations chiefly through independently produced portraits and commemorative medals rather than a monument, the same posthumous-medal tradition a museum-held 1641 silver medal of him belongs to. 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 Calvin's unmarked grave and the posthumous medal and portrait tradition that followed, independently corroborated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's own catalogue dating this exact 1641 medal decades after his 1564 death. Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Calvin
Source Typeencyclopedia
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Geneva, Cities This source names Geneva directly: "Reformed theology from his base in Geneva."
Source John Calvin (Wikipedia)
This source names John Calvin directly: "A Wikipedia article on John Calvin, the French Reformer whose Institutes of the Christian Religion shaped Reformed theology from his base in Geneva."
Source John Calvin (Wikipedia)
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This source backs 8 claims across the atlas. As facts: 5 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds.
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- Sources, 7 claims: 5 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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