Objects
Viewing Record 5 of 188Previous Record Next Record
Switch Views: Lightbox | Image List | List
Cardinal Ugo di Provenza wearing rivet spectacles
REPRODUCTION IMAGES COLLECTION
photograph (b+w); painting
Modena, Tommaso da
Europe: Italy, Treviso
c.1930-1939
paper
overall: 192 x 248 mm
1999.257
REPRODUCTION IMAGES COLLECTION
photograph (b+w); painting
Modena, Tommaso da
Europe: Italy, Treviso
c.1930-1939
paper
overall: 192 x 248 mm
Modern photographic reproduction (1930s?) of part of a 14th c. (1352) fresco by Tommaso da Modena in the Sala del Capitolo dei Dominicani nel Conventi di S Nicolo de Treviso. Depicts three clerics reading and writing in a monastic library. The right-hand figure, Cardinal Ugo di Provenza (Hugo of Provence) is wearing rivet spectacles consisting of two hand magnifiers attached together.
1999.257