eprintid: 5979 rev_number: 18 eprint_status: archive userid: 4 dir: disk0/00/00/59/79 datestamp: 2018-06-26 14:22:59 lastmod: 2018-07-05 10:07:06 status_changed: 2018-06-26 14:22:59 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Grzybkowska, Teresa contributors_type: trl contributors_name: Daniel, David title: Andreas Stech’s portraits of Johannes Hevelius in Gdańsk and Oxford. At the origins of the portrait of the early modern scholar subjects: 750 divisions: 9 cterms_swd: Stech, Andreas / Bildnis des Astronomen Joh. Hevelius cterms_swd: Stech, Andreas / Bildnis des Astronomen Joh. Hevelius cterms_swd: Gelehrter cterms_swd: Astronom abstract_translated_text: The present article deals with two portraits of the brilliant astronomer, the citizen of Gdańsk (Germ. Danzig), Johannes Hevelius (1610–1687). One of the paintings, since 1681 has been held in the Gdańsk City Council Library, now known as the Polish Academy of Sciences Gdańsk Library. The second portrait, donated by the astronomer in gratitude for accepting him into the Royal Society of London for the Promotion of Natural Knowledge, since 1679 had been held in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, after which, in 2001, it was moved to the city’s Museum of the History of Science. Recently the barely visible, yet legible signature of Andreas Stech (1635–1697), located to the right of the astronomer’s finger touching the celestial globe: Andr. Stech | pinxit 167[?] has been discovered and deciphered in the Oxford portrait. Placed next to each other during an exhibition in Gdańsk in 2011, the paintings did not make an impression of having been painted by two different hands. The signature on the Oxford portrait settles the matter – both paintings are by Stech. The painter was constant collaborator with Hevelius, the author of the astronomer’s other portraits, including those in the frontispieces as well as scientific illustrations in the scholar’s works. The iconographic uniqueness of the Gdańsk original and the Oxford replica confirm that it was the astronomer himself who determined the painting’s iconography. Hevelius wanted to be remembered as a rational scholar with a Cartesian countenance, admiring the work of Creation but also researching it empirically. Together with the artist he rejected the vain and melancholic tradition of representing astronomers. A new type of portrait of the early modern scholar was created in collaboration between the scholar and the artist – that of the specialist in a specific branch of knowledge. abstract_translated_lang: eng date: 2012 id_scheme: DOI id_number: 10.11588/artdok.00005979 collection: c-4 ppn_swb: 1654344095 own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-artdok-59796 language: eng bibsort: GRZYBKOWSKANDREASSTE2012 full_text_status: public publication: Artibus et Historiae volume: 33 number: 66 pagerange: 287-316 oa_type: green laender: LDe laender: LOs title_lat: Andreas Stech's portraits of Johannes Hevelius in Gdansk and Oxford. At the origins of the portrait of the early modern scholar themen: T11 themen: T25 citation: Grzybkowska, Teresa (2012) Andreas Stech’s portraits of Johannes Hevelius in Gdańsk and Oxford. At the origins of the portrait of the early modern scholar. In: Artibus et Historiae, 33 (2012), Nr. 66. pp. 287-316 document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/5979/1/Grzybkowska_Andreas_Stechs_portraits_of_Johannes_Hevelius_2012.pdf