Divina lucis radijs repente obumbrata ... – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Divina lucis radijs repente obumbrata ..., an antique engraving rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Divina lucis radijs repente obumbrata ...
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This engraving takes its title from a Latin phrase, "Divina lucis radijs repente obumbrata," which roughly means "suddenly overshadowed by the rays of divine light." It was printed as plate 23, on page 112 of a 1613 Latin life of Saint Teresa of Avila, the 16th-century Carmelite reformer whose visions and mystical writings made her one of Catholicism's most widely read saints. The book appeared the year before her beatification in 1614, when her cult was spreading across Europe. Illustrated lives like this one used engraved plates to turn her spiritual experiences into images that readers could study and meditate on.
| Created / published | 1613 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: Vita b. virginis Teresiae a Iesv ordinis Carmelitarum ..., 1613, page 112 (plate 23). Ref. This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,291 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-159171 |
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