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LastDodo number
5337629
Area
Prints / graphics
Title
HENRICUS IV. IMPERATOR.
Technique
Year
1701
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Dimensions
26,2 x 15,4
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Portrait of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1050-1106). He was King of Germany from 1056 and Roman-German Emperor from 1084 until his forced abdication in 1105. His rule was marked by the Investiture Controversy with the Papacy and several civil wars with pretenders to his throne in Italy and Germany. In 1077 Henry had to go via Burgundy to the remote castle of Canossa, where the Pope stayed. Hendrik asked for forgiveness: the proverbial way to Canossa. Gregorius supposedly made him wait barefoot in the snow for three days before receiving Henry to cancel the excommunication. 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. 571. Source: Rijksmuseum, 2015.

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