Four Versions of the Christus by the Massys
Deciphering the Meaning of the Letters
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3394072 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vicente Jara-Vera (0000-0001-8388-5235, corresponding author), Carmen Sánchez-Ávila (0000-0002-7690-1011), Carmen Ávila |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 19 |
| Publication date | 2017-02-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel8020019 |
| OpenAlex | W2589886669 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 13 |
The Flemish painters Quentin Massys and his son Jan Massys appear to be the authors of four works with a very similar motif, the bust of Jesus Christ. These canvasses can be found in different locations today: the Prado Museum in Madrid (Spain), the RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History of The Hague (Netherlands), the Kunstmuseum Winterthur (Switzerland), and another one in a private collection. Written on the edge of the robe around the neck, these canvasses display a series of Hebrew or pseudo-Hebrew letters. We offer the complete solution deciphered, until today incomplete, for three of them, with a very similar letter sequence. Finally, we resolve completely one of the canvasses, which, until today, had no known solution
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Flemish · Hebrew · Literature · Painting · Classics · Handwritten Text Recognition Techniques · History · Mathematics and Applications · Mathematics, Computing, and Information Processing
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| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2023 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
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