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A Portrait of Sir Christopher Hatton, Erasmus and an Emblem of Alciato: Some Questions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

C W R D Moseley
Affiliation:
Hughes Hall, Mortimer Road, Cambridge CB1 2EW, UK. E-mail: .

Abstract

This note discusses the enigmatic double-sided portrait of Sir Christopher Hatton now in Northampton Museum and Art Gallery. It seeks W illuminate the ways in which it could be read, how it might have been viewed, and suggests its possible functions. It also connects the picture with some central texts in Renaissance humanism, Erasmus's Adagia and Alciato's Emblematum Liber.

Type
Shorter Contributions
Copyright
Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 2006

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