Martyrdom of seven brothers, Majores sexu animi (title on object), Emblemata Sacra è praecipuis utriusque testamenti historiis concinnata (Old Testament) (series title), Imagines et figurae bibliorum (series title), Martyrdom of seven brothers by order of King Antiochus, because she refused to eat pork. In the foreground one of the sons has his hands cut off. Two more brothers follow behind him. On the right four cauldrons in which the other four brothers are roasted alive. A large crowd watches from and under a city gate (2. Macc. 7:1). With a motto in Latin above the image and a four-line

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