Portrait engraving by Cornelius Bloemaert, 1655
Sheet size 160 x 115 mm. The subject is depicted bust-length, aged 53, wearing a gown and biretta, with text below image "P. Athanius Kircherus Fuldensis ê Societ: Iesu Anno aetatis LIII. Honoris et observantiae ergo sculpsit et D.D. C. Bloemaert Romae 2 Maij A. 1655."
Slightly worn, soiled, and foxed; central horizontal creased; trimmed to plate mark; laid down to mounting sheet at corners. British Museum number O,3.167. Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (246).
Kircher was a German polyhistorian, theologian and music theorist, active mainly in Italy. "He is important for music as the author of Musurgia universalis, one of the most influential of all music treatises and specially notable among those of the Baroque period." George J. Buelow in Grove Music Online.
Slightly worn, soiled, and foxed; central horizontal creased; trimmed to plate mark; laid down to mounting sheet at corners. British Museum number O,3.167. Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (246).
Kircher was a German polyhistorian, theologian and music theorist, active mainly in Italy. "He is important for music as the author of Musurgia universalis, one of the most influential of all music treatises and specially notable among those of the Baroque period." George J. Buelow in Grove Music Online.