Twelve mirrors with which man tries to see God; Title page for: Jan David, Duodecim Specula deum, 1610. In a classic structure at the top of the title of the work. Centrally a mirror consisting of twelve small mirrors around a large mirror. The twelve small mirrors are numbered with Roman figures and show the twelve ways that man tries to see God: by the mirror of the community (a male head), the mirror of the deceit (a globe), the mirror of fire (a fire), The mirror of the well-being (a peacock), the mirror of the people (an eye), the mirror of life (a skull), the mirror of cleanliness (a fou
Twelve mirrors with which man tries to see God; Title page for: Jan David, Duodecim Specula deum, 1610. In a classic structure at the top of the title of the work. Centrally a mirror consisting of twelve small mirrors around a large mirror. The twelve small mirrors are numbered with Roman figures and show the twelve ways that man tries to see God: by the mirror of the community (a male head), the mirror of the deceit (a globe), the mirror of fire (a fire), The mirror of the well-being (a peacock), the mirror of the people (an eye), the mirror of life (a skull), the mirror of cleanliness (a fountain), mirror of creation (the sun and the moon), mirror of The Holy Scriptures (the Bible), mirror of the example (a bird), mirror of the allusions (the trinity in a dark mirror) and mirror of bliss (the tri-unit in a clear mirror). The large mirror in the middle shows the initials IHS (Iesus Hominum Salvator), the sign of the Jesuit Order. The print is the title page for the Duodecim Specula Deum logo book, consisting of twelve emblems.
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