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The portrait is of a man, 21 years old, and expensively dressed. He wears a [[Doublet (clothing)|doublet]], possibly velvet, with rows of golden buttons. The pattern on the doublet is made by cuts in the cloth, showing the lining under.<ref name="nicholl">{{cite book |last1=Nicholl |first1=Charles |title=The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe |date=1995 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=9780226580241 |pages=5-9 |url=https://books.google.se/books?id=FUjE9kFtiT8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Reckoning:+The+Murder+of+Christopher+Marlowe&hl=sv&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiGxtP9vfPjAhUh_SoKHRgSBq8Q6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=portrait&f=false |language=en}}</ref> The man's stated age and the date on the painting match Marlowe's time at the college, but the evidence is inconclusive, and it could be another student.<ref name="erne"/> The latin text in the upper left corner reads "Quod me nutrit me destruit", in English "That which nourishes me destroys me".<ref name="wraight"/>{{rp|66}}<ref name="nicholl"/> |
The portrait is of a man, 21 years old, and expensively dressed. He wears a [[Doublet (clothing)|doublet]], possibly velvet, with rows of golden buttons. The pattern on the doublet is made by cuts in the cloth, showing the lining under.<ref name="nicholl">{{cite book |last1=Nicholl |first1=Charles |title=The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe |date=1995 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=9780226580241 |pages=5-9 |url=https://books.google.se/books?id=FUjE9kFtiT8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Reckoning:+The+Murder+of+Christopher+Marlowe&hl=sv&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiGxtP9vfPjAhUh_SoKHRgSBq8Q6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=portrait&f=false |language=en}}</ref> The man's stated age and the date on the painting match Marlowe's time at the college, but the evidence is inconclusive, and it could be another student.<ref name="erne"/> The latin text in the upper left corner reads "Quod me nutrit me destruit", in English "That which nourishes me destroys me".<ref name="wraight"/>{{rp|66}}<ref name="nicholl"/> |
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The portrait has become firmly associated with Marlowe, and is commonly used to depict him.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hopkins |first1=L. |title=A Christopher Marlowe Chronology |date=2005 |publisher=Springer |isbn=9780230503045 |page=191 |url=https://books.google.se/books?id=fSh-DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA191&dq=Corpus+Christi+portrait+Marlowe&hl=sv&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiU6bampvXjAhW5wsQBHfH7BS8Q6AEIMjAB#v=onepage&q=Corpus%20Christi%20portrait%20Marlowe&f=false |accessdate=9 August 2019 |language=en}}</ref> It hangs in the dining hall at Corpus Christi College.<ref name="nicholl"/> |
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It hangs in the dining hall at Corpus Christi College.<ref name="nicholl"/> |
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Revision as of 07:55, 9 August 2019
The Marlowe portrait is an unsigned portrait on a wooden panel, dated 1585, which was re-discovered in 1953 during renovations at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.[1][2]
It has been widely suggested that the portrait depicts the English playwright Christopher Marlowe (1564 – 1593), a theory first advanced in 1955 by Marlovian Calvin Hoffman. No other portrait of Marlowe is known to exist.[3]: 214 [4][5]
The portrait is of a man, 21 years old, and expensively dressed. He wears a doublet, possibly velvet, with rows of golden buttons. The pattern on the doublet is made by cuts in the cloth, showing the lining under.[6] The man's stated age and the date on the painting match Marlowe's time at the college, but the evidence is inconclusive, and it could be another student.[1] The latin text in the upper left corner reads "Quod me nutrit me destruit", in English "That which nourishes me destroys me".[3]: 66 [6]
The portrait has become firmly associated with Marlowe, and is commonly used to depict him.[7] It hangs in the dining hall at Corpus Christi College.[6]
See also
References
- ^ a b Logan, Robert A. (2017). Christopher Marlowe. Routledge. pp. Chapter 4. ISBN 9781351951647. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
- ^ Association, American Bar (May 1960). "ABA Journal". American Bar Association: 513. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ a b Wraight, A. D. (1965). In search of Christopher Marlowe: a pictorial biography. The Vanguard Press.
- ^ Nicholl, Charles (25 January 2013). "Exiting the Stage". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
A supposed portrait from 1585 shows a sardonic-looking young man in a snazzy velvet doublet, though the evidence that it is him is tenuous, and to identify the portrait as Marlowe's is in itself a kind of fictionalizing.
- ^ "What feeds me, destroys me: Christopher Marlowe and Corpus Christi". Varsity Online. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
Despite any real documentary evidence, it is indeed almost universally said to show the Corpus-educated playwright.
- ^ a b c Nicholl, Charles (1995). The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe. University of Chicago Press. pp. 5–9. ISBN 9780226580241.
- ^ Hopkins, L. (2005). A Christopher Marlowe Chronology. Springer. p. 191. ISBN 9780230503045. Retrieved 9 August 2019.