The bride looks in the mirror of science, Johannes Wierix (Possible), after Gerard van Groeningen, 1574 print Science (Scientia) stops her mirror again for the bride (Sponsa), which looks into it. Justice (Justitia), godliness (Timor dei), chastisement (castigatio), satisfaction (satisfactio), penitence (Poenitentia) and confessio (confessio) watch. In the margin a four -line caption, in two columns, in Latin. Antwerp paper engraving / letterpress printing bride (in wedding-dress). Piety, 'Pietas', 'Timor Dei' ~ the Three Theological Virtues. castigation, flagellation ~ ascetic life (+ variant
The bride looks in the mirror of science, Johannes Wierix (Possible), after Gerard van Groeningen, 1574 print Science (Scientia) stops her mirror again for the bride (Sponsa), which looks into it. Justice (Justitia), godliness (Timor dei), chastisement (castigatio), satisfaction (satisfactio), penitence (Poenitentia) and confessio (confessio) watch. In the margin a four -line caption, in two columns, in Latin. Antwerp paper engraving / letterpress printing bride (in wedding-dress). Piety, 'Pietas', 'Timor Dei' ~ the Three Theological Virtues. castigation, flagellation ~ ascetic life (+ variant). Justice, 'Justitia'; 'Giustitia divina' (Ripa) ~ one of the Four Cardinal Virtues. Satisfaction, Contentment; 'Contento' (Ripa). confession; 'Confessione Sacramentale' (Ripa) ~ the third of the seven sacraments. penance, 'Poenitentia'; 'Contritione' (Ripa) ~ part of the confession. symbolic representations, allegories and emblems ~ science, 'Scientia'; 'Scienza', 'Studio' (Ripa). mirror
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