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LastDodo number
5173615
Area
Prints / graphics
Title
PHOTIUS ICONOCLASTA.
Technique
Year
1701
Print run
Dimensions
26,2 x 15,3
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Portrait of Fotius I of Constantinople (ca. 820 - 891) standing on a pedestal; he has his bishop's staff in his hands. Fotius was Patriarch of Constantinople from 858 to 886. He fathered Theodore II, who became pope in 897. He wrote the Bibliotheca, an extensive collection of excerpts from about 300 Ancient Greek prose works, of great importance to our knowledge of Greek literature, since most of the original works have been lost. went. His feast day in the Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic Churches is February 6. Etching and engraving by Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708), after own design. Published in: Arnold Godfried. "History of churches and ricocheting from the beginning of the New Testaments to the year onses Heeren 1688", Amsterdam, Sebastiaan Petzold, 1701, part 1, p. 539. Source: Rijksmuseum, 2014.

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