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Saint Augustine of Hippo: a child compares its attempt to empty the sea with a spoon with Saint Augustine's attempts understand the Holy Trinity. Stipple engraving.

Saint Augustine of Hippo: a child compares its attempt to empty the sea with a spoon with Saint Augustine's attempts understand the Holy Trinity. Pen and ink drawing.

Saint Augustine of Hippo: a child compares its attempt to empty the sea with a spoon with Saint Augustine's attempts understand the Holy Trinity. Coloured engraving by F. Huybrechts.

Saint Augustine of Hippo: a child compares its attempt to empty the sea with a spoon with Saint Augustine's attempts understand the Holy Trinity. Engraving by B. Farjat after A. Scilla.

Saint Augustine of Hippo: a child compares its attempt to empty the sea with a spoon with Saint Augustine's attempts understand the Holy Trinity. Line engraving by J. Rolls after Benvenuto Tisi, il Garofalo.

Saint Augustine of Hippo: a child compares its attempt to empty the sea with a spoon with Saint Augustine's attempts understand the Holy Trinity. Stipple engraving by P.W. Tomkins, 1816, after W.W. Hodgson after B. Tisi, il Garofalo.

The anthropomorphic lens : anthropomorphism, microcosmism, and analogy in early modern thought and visual arts / edited by Walter S. Melion, Bret Rothstein, and Michel Weemans.

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Saint Augustine of Hippo: a child compares its attempt to empty the sea with a spoon with Saint Augustine's attempts understand the Holy Trinity. Engraving by B. Farjat after A. Scilla.

Saint Augustine of Hippo: a child compares its attempt to empty the sea with a spoon with Saint Augustine's attempts understand the Holy Trinity. Line engraving by J. Rolls after Benvenuto Tisi, il Garofalo.

Saint Augustine of Hippo: a child compares its attempt to empty the sea with a spoon with Saint Augustine's attempts understand the Holy Trinity. Pen and ink drawing.

Saint Augustine of Hippo: a child compares its attempt to empty the sea with a spoon with Saint Augustine's attempts understand the Holy Trinity. Stipple engraving by P.W. Tomkins, 1816, after W.W. Hodgson after B. Tisi, il Garofalo.

The anthropomorphic lens : anthropomorphism, microcosmism, and analogy in early modern thought and visual arts / edited by Walter S. Melion, Bret Rothstein, and Michel Weemans.