Johannes Gerson as a Pilgrim, frontispiece from Opera Johannes Gerson

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Johannes Gerson as a Pilgrim, frontispiece from Opera Johannes Gerson

Unknown artist (German)LinkedCulture matchlcp-b63e62bb2b50

Date
1488
Medium
Hand-colored woodcut in black on cream laid paper
Culture
Germany
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
55441

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Woodblocks were exceptionally durable printing matrices; several thousand impressions could be pulled from them. Like the Erhard Reeuwich panorama of Jerusalem on view nearby (1947.474), this book illustration was frequently reissued and copied. It depicts the late medieval French theologian Jean de (Johannes) Gerson (1363–1429) on an imagined pilgrimage with a dog and a walking staff. Gerson did write about the role of the pilgrim in his Works , a volume of which included this author portrait. Yet this luxuriously colored impression included more than golden highlights, adding an entirely new landscape background; in most impressions, everything beyond the castle on the hill is blank.

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Gift of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

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