1693 - JESUS ARRESTED - French engrv - JESUIT

1693 - JESUS ARRESTED - French engrv - JESUIT (image 1/1)
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A plate from a French edition (1693) of one of the most significant Jesuit, Counter-Reformation illustrated works. Subject: Pharisees send soldiers to arrest Christ. John 7 (1-42) Details are typical of Flemish art of the time: plants, crafts, clothes. After a drawing by: Bernardo Passeri Engraver: annonymous Page: 11 .75 inches x 8.5 inches Image: 9 inches x 5.5 inches Condition: the image is in a good impression; margins and text have spots and age-typical browning NOT SHOWN in images below Overall: GOOD MINUS Scanner Issues: Images below lack exquisite subtlety, richness, clarity, brightness, contrasts, and tonality of original. They may create an illusion of the actual size of the engraving (making it seem bigger or larger than it is) -- so please note the size as given above. An original, antique, copper-plate engraving from a French edition (1693) of an highly significant and influential illustrated religious book originally published in 1593 . Ignatius Loyola suggested to his friend Jerome Nadal to commission a series of engravings that would do for religion what the scientific of the day were doing for scientists -- use perspective and annotations to draw the reader into the Biblical stories so that they could become real and be an aid in daily meditation. This was the first book where the illustrations, rather than read more
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