File:Kopernikus, Nikolaus - Reußner 1578 Portrait1.jpg
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Deutsch: Kopernikus-Portrait aus dem Holzschnitt in Nicolaus Reusners († 1602) "Icones" (1587), der von Christoph Murer († 1614) nach einem angeblichen Selbstportrait von Kopernikus gefertigt wurde. Dieses Portrait wurde zur Vorlage einer Reihe weiterer Holzschnitt-, Kupferstich- und Gemälde-Portraits von Kopernikus.
English: portrait of Copernicus, woodcut attributed to Christoph Murer, from Nicolas Reusner's Icones (1587). This is a work in the viri clarissimi, based on the original edition of Giovio (Venice 1546). Giovio's edition did not contain a portrait of Copernicus, and neither did subsequent editions until 1575.
The Basel publisher Piero Pierna sent painter Tobias Stimmer to Como in order to produce sketches of the portraits in Giovio's book. Stimmer apparently also acquired a portrait of Copernicus, allegedly based on a self-portrait by Copernicus. Stimmer painted the oldest known portrait of Copernicus on Strasbourg astronomical clock in c. 1571/4. Stimmer's portrait shows Copernicus holding a lily of the valley. The earliest appearance of a portrait of Copernicus in print is Reusner's Icones, printed in Strasbourg in 1587. Tobias Stimmer was involved in this production, and the portraits are based on his sketches, but Stimmer died in 1584, before the work was completed, and the execution of the actual woodcut is attributed to Christoph Murer. Andreas Kühne, Stefan Kirschner, Biographia Copernicana: Die Copernicus-Biographien des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts (2004), p. 14 |
| Date | [sic! the "1587" in the filename is a typo] |
| Source | Icones, p. 36 |
| Author | Christoph Murer, Tobias Stimmer |
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