Iconclass

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

... > Religion and Magic > Christian religion > saints > male saints (with NAME) > the giant and martyr Christophorus; possible attributes: palm-tree (with bunches of dates, or withered), infant Christ > miraculous activities and events ~ St. Christopher > St. Christopher, with the infant Christ on his shoulders, wading through the water and carrying his staff (palm-tree); sometimes a hermit stands on the further bank beside a chapel, a lantern in his hand

Preferred term

11H(CHRISTOPHER)51St. Christopher, with the infant Christ on his shoulders, wading through the water and carrying his staff (palm-tree); sometimes a hermit stands on the further bank beside a chapel, a lantern in his hand  

Broader concept

Narrower concepts

Subject

  • carrying
  • carrying on the shoulders
  • chapel
  • Christ-child
  • Christian religion
  • Christopher (St.)
  • date-palm
  • giant
  • hermit
  • lantern
  • martyr
  • religion
  • river bank
  • saint
  • staff
  • supernatural
  • wading
  • waters

Notation

  • 11H(CHRISTOPHER)51

In other languages

URI

http://iconclass.org/11H%28CHRISTOPHER%2951

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Last modified 9/16/14