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Abstract: The paper shows that the painting with the Dead Christ Supported by Angels in the Thun Chapel at St Vitus Cathedral in Prague, so far considered a work by Italian painter Giulio Licinio, is a stylistically updated, but compositionally a largely faithful repetition of a Netherlandish painting from around 1550-1560, known only from a photograph from the archive of Max J. Friedländer (RDK, The Hague). Together, a newly uncovered painting The Dead Christ Supported by Angels by Bartholomeus Spranger is presented, which is closely linked to an engraving from 1587, dedicated by Spranger to Paul Sixt Trautson, Majordomo (Obersthofmarschall) and President of the Court Council who was also the protector of the Corpus Christi Fraternity in Prague. Perhaps, the painting in St. Vitus Cathedral may have been the first altarpiece and devotional image of the Corpus Christi Fraternity. |
