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Partners-in-crime: a reading of Gerlach Flicke's 1554 prison diptych
Ist Teil von
Word & image (London. 1985), 2007-04, Vol.23 (2), p.195-210
Ort / Verlag
Taylor & Francis Group
Erscheinungsjahr
2007
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
In 1554 the German artist Gerlach Flicke produced a small (88 mm x 119 mm) diptych
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containing his own self-portrait and a painting of the pirate Henry Strangeways. Above the image of Strangeways, Flicke offers a verbal gloss on his work: 'Strangwish, thus strangely, depictedis [sic] One prisoner, for thother, hath done this/Gerlin, hath garnisht, for his delight This woorck whiche you se, before youre sight'.
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In prison, perhaps as a result of some undocumented part in the 1554 Wyatt rebellion against the marriage of Queen Mary I to the Spanish king, Philip II,
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Flicke presents what are perhaps early modern art's most curious mug-shots, and the first artist's self-portrait in oils produced in England.