Four heads representing the souls of people who have given different degrees of attention to spiritual matters. Engraving after R. Sadeler.

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1600-1699
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34731i
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Four heads representing the souls of people who have given different degrees of attention to spiritual matters. Engraving after R. Sadeler. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[Paris?] : Iaspar Isac ex

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1 print : engraving ; image 12.3 x 9.8 cm

Lettering

Pour y avoir bien pensé ; Pour ni avoir assez bien pensé ; Pour ni avoir point pensé ; Pensez y bien. Pensez y bien. Quam magna multitudo dulcedinis tuæ domine. Miseremini mei, miseremini mei, saltem uos amici mei. Infernus domus mea est et in tenebris, scraui lectulū meum. Et in puluerem mortis deduxisti me.

References note

Eckhard Leuschner, 'The role of prints in the artistic genealogy of Bernini's Anima beata and Anima damnata', Print quarterly, 2016, XXXIII: 135-146 (does not mention this version by Isac)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 34731i

Contents

Top left, the blessed soul in heaven: Pour y avoir bien pensé ; Quam magna multitudo dulcedinis tuæ domine.
Top right, the soul in Purgatory: Pour ni avoir assez bien pensé ; Miseremini mei, miseremini mei, saltem uos amici mei.
Bottom left, the damned soul in hell: Pour ni avoir point pensé ; Infernus domus mea est et in tenebris, scraui [i.e. stravi] lectulu(m) meum
Bottom right, death: Pensez y bien. Pensez y bien. Et in puluerem mortis deduxisti me.

Creator/production credits

The general outline of the subjects was first depicted by Pieter de Jode I, whose compositions were modified by Raphael Sadeler, whose four separate prints are here modified and united on one plate by Jaspar Isac (Leuschner, loc. cit.)

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