The Christ Child sweeping a brood of reptilian monsters out of the believer's heart with a broom. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.

  • Wierix, Antonie, -1604.
Date:
[1600?]
Reference:
31768i
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Cor Jesu amanti sacrum
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[Antwerp] : Anton. Wierix, [1600?]

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1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 7.8 x 5.6 cm.

Lettering

O beatam cordis aedem! Te cui caelum dedit sedem purgat suis manibus. Animose puer verre, monstra tuo vultu terre, tere tuis pedibus. Anton Wierx fecit et excud. Translation of lettering: O blessed temple of the heart! Let him to whom heaven has given his abode clean you with his own hands. Spirited boy, sweep away! Frighten the monsters with your look! crush them under your feet!

References note

M. Mauquoy-Hendrickx, Les estampes des Wierix, vol. 1, Brussels 1978, nos. 434
Hollstein's Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, 1450-1700, vol. LXI, The Wierix Family: part III, compiled by Zsuzsanna van Ruyven-Zeman, Rotterdam 2003, no. 450
J. Peto (ed.), The heart, New Haven and London 2007, p. 23
Eugenio Monegon, 'Jesuit emblematica in China: the circulation of allegorical images in late Ming Fujian, according to Chinese and Western sources', Monumenta serica, 2007

Reference

Wellcome Collection 31768i

Notes

In the seventeenth century the prints in this series (Cor Jesu amanti sacrum) were used in catechisms by Jesuit preachers in Fujian, China: E. Menegon, op. cit.

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