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  • Louis Pasteur, head and shoulders, with allegorical figures. Colour process print by Phg. Y. Michel after H. Meyer, 1895.
  • A female allegorical figure of theory guiding a boy towards a nude female figure representing Nature, who is revealed by the winged figure of painting. Crayon manner print by J.B. Lucien, 1795, after P.T. Le Clerc.
  • The triumph of the physician Jacobus Castricus (Jacques van den Kasteele): allegorical figures of Practice and Theory accompany him in a chariot under a triumphal arch; in the foreground, honey, mint and artemisia and mythical beasts are tramping on the contorted bodies of plague, fever and dropsy. Process print after H. Holbein (?), ca. 1540.
  • The medical practitioner appearing as a devil when he asks for his fee. Photograph after Hendrick Goltzius, 1587.
  • The Christ Child deposits the Instruments of the Passion inside the believer's heart. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.
  • The Christ Child shooting arrows into the believer's heart to conquer the fires of lust. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.
  • The Christ Child painting pictures (the Last Judgment, the Assumption of the Virgin and a scene from hell) on the inner wall of the believer's heart. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.
  • The Christ Child enthroned as a king in the palace of the believer's heart, venerated by angels. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.
  • The Christ Child, helped by angels, bestows a crown on the believer's heart, which is bedecked with palm branches. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.
  • The Christ Child as a professor sitting at a desk in the believer's heart, lecturing to angels. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.
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