Saint_Teresa_of_Ávila's_Vision_of_the_Holy_Spirit

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Saint Teresa of Ávila's Vision of the Holy Spirit

Painting by Peter Paul Rubens

Saint Teresa of Ávila's Vision of the Holy Spirit is a 1612-1614 painting by Peter Paul Rubens. It is now in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.[1][2]

Saint Teresa of Ávila's Vision of the Holy Spirit (1612-1614) by Rubens

It shows a vision described by Teresa of Avila in her autobiography and (with two other versions in a private collection[3] and at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge) is one of three surviving versions of the subject by the artist.

References

  1. [1]
    "Saint Teresa of Avila's Vision of the Dove - Peter Paul Rubens (in 1612 - 1614)".
  2. [2]
    "Hans Vlieghe, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard - Part VIII - Saints II (Brussels: Arcade Press, 1973), page 163" (PDF).
  3. [3]
    "Auction 1141, Paintings and Drawings 15th - 19th C., 16.11.2019 - Lot 1048 - Peter Paul Rubens - Saint Theresa of Avila".

Bibliography

  • Vlieghe, Hans, Saints (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, 8), nr. 152, Arcade, Brussel, 1972
  • Jansen, Guido M.C., De verzameling van de Stichting Willem van der Vorm in het Museum Boymans-van Beuningen Rotterdam = Collection of the Willem van der Vorm Foundation at the Boymans Museum Rotterdam, nr. 5, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1994
  • de Poorter, Nora, Rubens en zijn tijd, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1996, 18
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