Comments to: David Woods
Last Updated: December 2000
I. Western Art
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| The St Christopher woodcut from the John Rylands Library, Manchester, UK, was executed in southern Germany or German Switzerland in 1423. This hand-coloured block-print is the earliest dated example of European printing, and was preserved as an endpaper in a manuscript dated 1417 from Bohemia, the Laus Virginis. |
| "St. Christopher" by Conrad Witz (1400-45), dating c. 1435, at the Öffentliche Kunstammlung Kunstmuseum, Basel. Image from Web Gallery of Art. |
| "St. Christopher" (62.6 x 27.5cm) by Dirk Bouts the Younger (1448-91), at the Alte Pinakothek, Munich. Image from Web Gallery of Art. |
| "St. Christopher", left panel (1.67 x 0.67m) from the Polyptych of S. Vincenzo Ferreri by Giovanni Bellini (1426-1516), dating 1464-68, at the Basilica dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice. Image from Web Gallery of Art. |
| "Sts. Christopher, Jerome and Augustine" (3.00 x 1.85m) by Giovanni Bellini (1426-1516), dating 1513, at the Chiesa di San Giovanni Crisostomo, Venice. Image from Web Gallery of Art. |
| Wooden sculpure by Alonso Berruguette (1488-1561), dating c.1526-32, at National Museum of Religious Carvings, Valladolid. Image from Web Gallery of Art. |
| "St. Christopher with the Christ Child" (78 3/4 x 61 inches) by Simon Pereyns, dating 1588, at Catedral Metropolitano, Mexico City. |
| Gilded wood sculpture (94 1/2 inches), dating 16th-17th century, at Catedral de Cuernavaca, Mexico. |
| Wooden sculpture of St. Christopher, approximately life size, by Tobias Heintze, dated 1624, from Church of St. Nicholas, Tallinn. Note the unusual absence of the Christ-child from Christopher's neck where the globe alone appears. My thanks to Prof. B. Sallay and D. Sallay. |
| "St. Christopher" (1.27 x 1.00m) by Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652), dating 1637, at Museo del Prado, Madrid. Image from Web Gallery of Art. |