Holy Nicolaas of Myra, Holy Dionysia and Saint Majorus of Africa, Saint Agathopus of Crete, Maria tramples a dragon (Maria's Immaculate Conception) (6-8 December), Jacques Callot, 1632 - 1636 print Sheet with four oval representations, each with inscription and date in Latin: in the top left of the Sacred Nicolaas of Myra as a bishop next to a ton with three boys, at the top right of the Holy Dionysia of Africa who is beaten with branch forests, the torture death to die, below the Holy Agathopus of Crete led by a soldier for a ruler, below Mary with a dragon under her feet. This print is part
Holy Nicolaas of Myra, Holy Dionysia and Saint Majorus of Africa, Saint Agathopus of Crete, Maria tramples a dragon (Maria's Immaculate Conception) (6-8 December), Jacques Callot, 1632 - 1636 print Sheet with four oval representations, each with inscription and date in Latin: in the top left of the Sacred Nicolaas of Myra as a bishop next to a ton with three boys, at the top right of the Holy Dionysia of Africa who is beaten with branch forests, the torture death to die, below the Holy Agathopus of Crete led by a soldier for a ruler, below Mary with a dragon under her feet. This print is part of a series of prints with representations of the saints and the Christian holidays of the year. Four scenes of one plate are always printed on one leaf. Including accompanying title page and frontispiece, it concerns a total of 124 plates (490 performances). The three plates with the last 12 scenes (the changeable Christian holidays) were cut into 12 small pictures in the third state, and with a separate title page. print maker: Nancypublisher: Paris paper etching the bishop Nicholas of Myra (or Bari); possible attributes: anchor, boat, three golden balls (on a book), three purses, three children in a tub, three maidens. female saints (with NAME). male saints (with NAME). male saints (with NAME). 'Immaculata', 'Purisima': Mary, usually standing on a crescent moon, descending from heaven, exempt from original sin (sometimes trampling serpent)
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