Mirror of deception; Speclvm Fallax; Twelve mirrors with which man tries to see God; Duodecim Specula Deum. In the foreground a fox blows a bubble that has the shape of the world. In the background tone images of the earthly deception: a woman looking in a mirror, a jester looking through a mirror to the moon, a painter that displays an angel as a devil, a chameleon. The print has a Latin caption: 'Fallacus speculi cauesis too loved image: non aurum est, quidquid bractea fulua tegit'. At the bottom of a legend of the scenes that are alphabetically numbered in the image. The print is part of a
Mirror of deception; Speclvm Fallax; Twelve mirrors with which man tries to see God; Duodecim Specula Deum. In the foreground a fox blows a bubble that has the shape of the world. In the background tone images of the earthly deception: a woman looking in a mirror, a jester looking through a mirror to the moon, a painter that displays an angel as a devil, a chameleon. The print has a Latin caption: 'Fallacus speculi cauesis too loved image: non aurum est, quidquid bractea fulua tegit'. At the bottom of a legend of the scenes that are alphabetically numbered in the image. The print is part of a twelve-part series (II from XII prints) with the subject twelve mirrors with which man tries to see God.
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Photo credit: © BTEU/RKMLGE / Alamy / Afripics
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