Single portrait of Jakob VII Trapp

General information
Original location Schluderns (South Tyrol, Italy), Churburg (possibly)
Current location Still in original location
Artist Jakob Pfister
Date First half of the seventeenth century
Material Oil on linen
Dimensions 160 x 111 cm
Visual elements
Short description Portrait of a harnessed man, standing, portrayed almost full-length, turned to the right, facing the viewer. His left hand rests on a helmet.
Depicted pilgrim
Personal information
Name Jakob VII Trapp
Social status / profession Lord of Churburg; Knight of the Holy Sepulchre
Coat of arms Top right: early renaissance shield - quarterly, I and III: in green a black crane, II and IV: in silver a fess dancetty paly red and black; a silver inescutcheon with (?)
early renaissance shield - in silver a red Jerusalem cross
Text Top right: Anno nativitatis Christi 1553 // Iacobi Trapp, aetatis suae xxvi
Other known portraits Full length wooden statue, c.1560 (Schluderns, Churburg)
Pilgrimages
Year of pilgrimage to Jerusalem 1561
Attributes Jerusalem pilgrimage Jerusalem cross (on coat of arms)
Death
Year of death 1563
Additional information related to this person
Personal remarks The pilgrim's cloak of Jakob still exists, also in Churburg castle (see weblinks).
Additional information
Literature
  • Abate, Marco, et al. (ed.), Circa 1500. Landesausstellung 2000 (Milan 2000)
  • Andergassen, Leo, Churburg. Geschichte Gestalt und Kunst (Munich 1991), p. 59f.
  • Grebe, Anja, 'Pilgrims and Fashion: The Functions of Pilgrims' Garments,' in: Sarah Blick and Rita Tekippe (eds.), Art and Architecture of Late Medieval Pilgrimage in Northern Europe and the British Isles (Leiden and Boston 2005), pp. 3-28
Description of the pilgrim's cloak of Jakob Trapp
Description on Tiroler Portraits (search on 'jakob vii. trapp')
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