Detail View: Museums: Knox

Work Record ID: 
0041844
Shelfmark: 
JA 1059
Title: 
John Knox (1509-1572)
Creator: 
Beze, Theodore de (b.1519, d.1605)
Creator Name: 
Beze, Theodore de
Creator Dates: 
b.1519, d.1605
Creator Role: 
Author
Summary Creator: 
Theodore de Beze
Creator: 
Knox, John (b.1509, d.1572)
Creator Name: 
Knox, John
Creator Dates: 
b.1509, d.1572
Creator Role: 
Sitter
Summary Creator: 
John Knox
Date: 
1580
Description: 
Theodore de Beze was Calvin's successor in Geneva and set out to commemorate the great men of the Reformation by publishing their portraits and brief biography. To be able to publish a true likeness was evidently important for Beze, for where he did not have one he leaves a blank page. The Reformers include John Knox along with Luther Calvin and many others. The book is dedicated to James VI whose portrait appears as the frontispiece. Three years later James was also patron of the new College of Edinburgh, a Reformation institution, and so there is a close association between its foundation and Beze's book. This association and the sense of the importance of portraiture which Beze displays were perhaps reflected in the series of portraits of Reformers, including Knox himself, which hung in the university Library from an early date.
Work Type: 
Print
Material: 
Paper
Technique: 
Woodcut
Location: 
Special Collections/Main Library
Repository: 
Object Lessons
Related Work Title: 
The Hope Scott Collection
Related Work Notes: 
Host Item
Repro File Type: 
Cropped Tiff
Repro File Size (bytes): 
85514434
Repro Title: 
Knox
Repro Creator Name: 
Edinburgh University Library Photography Department
Repro Repository: 
Object Lessons
Repro Old ID Number: 
ol0037
Repro Rights Statement: 
© Edinburgh University Library
Repro Capture Date: 
01/08/2003 16:22:00