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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

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

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