Saint Placidus. Coloured engraving by F. Huybrechts.

  • Huybrechts, Franciscus, 1630-1687.
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11128i
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Dressed as a Benedictine monk, he holds a tongue in a pair of pincers, referring to the legend that "il avait eu sa langue arrachée avant d'être pendu la tête en bas". The legend comes from the Vita Placidii by Petrus Diaconus ("ce récit imaginative"), according to Réau, loc. cit.

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[Antwerp?]

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1 print : engraving, with gouache

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Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/46/67

Lettering

S. Placidus. Franc. Huberti.

References note

L. Réau, Iconographie de l'art chrétien, Paris : P.U.F., 1957, vol. III, part 3, p. 1112

Reference

Wellcome Collection 11128i

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