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| Artist | After Asper, Hans Kaspar (German painter, 1592-before 1655) |
| Title | Ulrich Zwingli (1484 - 1531) |
| Date earliest | about 1600 |
| Date latest | 1696 |
| Material | oil on panel (hardwood {oak}) |
| Measurements | 60 x 38 cm (estimate) |
| Inscription | front uc 'HVLRICHVS ZVINGLIVS' |
| Description | One of a series of portraits of the Protestant reformers, probably derived from the widely disseminated prints of learned men. The artist may have copied the woodcut of Zwingli in Theodore Beza's Icones, published in 1580, which contains portraits of the Reformers. This particular painting derives from the portrait of Zwingli by the German artist, Hans Asper. Ulrich Zwingli, the Swiss reformer, was born at Wildhaus in St Gall, studied at Bern, Vienna, and Basel, became a priest at Glarus and in 1518 was elected preacher in the Minster at Zurich. Zwingli's doctrines, set forth in his sixty-seven theses, brought him into sharp conflict with Luther and the resultant conflict was to rend the Protestant church. |
| Subject | portrait (Ulrich Zwingli) |
| Collection | Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh |
| Current accession number | EU 209 |
| Acquisition details | Given to the University of Edinburgh before 1696 (?) |
| Principal exhibitions | An Exhibition to mark the Quatercentenary of the University of Edinburgh, Talbot Rice Art Centre, The University of Edinburgh, 1983. |
| Principal publications | Talbot Rice, D. (ed.), The University Portraits, Edinburgh, 1957, no. 142. |
| Notes |
This painting is after an original by the German artist, Hans Asper in the Kunstmuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland. It was engraved by A. H. Payne and others and widely disseminated. It also appears in Theodore Beza's Icones (1580). |
| Rights status | Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh |
| Author | Dr Patricia Smyth |
