Portrait of Cardinal Isidore
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Basic information
- ID
- Ж-5997
- Author
- unknown
- Name
- Portrait of Cardinal Isidore
- Date of creation
- 18th c.
- Technique
- oil painting
- Material
- canvas oil
- Dimensions (height x width, cm)
- 83 x 66
Additionally
- Type
- painting
- Genre
- portraiture
- Provenance
- Lviv Historical Museum
Information about author
Object description
Isidore (? –1463) – metropolitan of Kyiv, cardinal. He was Greek by birth, born in Thessaloniki. He was the last metropolitan elected and put responsible for all of Rus in Constantinople. Against a neutral background stands the figure of the clergyman. A man with a long dark beard is represented in a red cardinal's robe. This portrait is a copy of an earlier image. On the back there is an inscription: «Isidorus Metropolitanus Russia et Cardinali / Sancta Romana Ecelesia Ordinis Sancti / Basilij Magni Creolus ab Eugenio guarto / Pontifice in Consilio Florenctano. / Anno 1459».
Portrayed person
- The name of the person portrayed
- Isidore
- Lifetime of the person portrayed
- ? –1463
