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| Artist | After Asper, Hans Kaspar (German painter, 1592-before 1655) |
| Title | Ionnes Oecolampadius (1482 - 1531) |
| Date earliest | about 1650 |
| Date latest | about 1696 |
| Material | oil on panel |
| Measurements | 61 x 46 cm (estimate) |
| Description | Ionnes Oecolampadius was John Hausschein. He changed his name to the Greek Oecolampadius, meaning 'the light of the house'. A leading reformer and friend of Erasmus, he was appointed pastor of the Church of St Martin and Professor of Theology in the University of Basle. He supported Zwingli on the question of Christ's presence in the Eucharist, opposing Luther and Melanchthon at the Conference at Marburg in 1529. This work is probably derived from a painting by the German artist Hans Aspers, another version of which is in the Kunsthmuseum, Basel. The artist may have copied the composition through the woodcut of Oecolampadius in Theodore Beza's Icones, published in 1580. |
| Subject | portrait (Ionnes Oeclampadius) |
| Collection | Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh |
| Current accession number | EU 206 |
| 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. 114. |
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| Rights status | Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh |
| Author | Dr Patricia Smyth |
