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  • Saint Augustine of Hippo: a child compares its attempt to empty the sea with a spoon with Saint Augustine's attempts understand the Holy Trinity. Stipple engraving.
  • Saint Augustine of Hippo: a child compares its attempt to empty the sea with a spoon with Saint Augustine's attempts understand the Holy Trinity. Pen and ink drawing.
  • Saint Augustine of Hippo: a child compares its attempt to empty the sea with a spoon with Saint Augustine's attempts understand the Holy Trinity. Coloured engraving by F. Huybrechts.
  • Saint Augustine of Hippo: a child compares its attempt to empty the sea with a spoon with Saint Augustine's attempts understand the Holy Trinity. Engraving by B. Farjat after A. Scilla.
  • Saint Augustine of Hippo: a child compares its attempt to empty the sea with a spoon with Saint Augustine's attempts understand the Holy Trinity. Line engraving by J. Rolls after Benvenuto Tisi, il Garofalo.
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    Saint Augustine of Hippo: a child compares its attempt to empty the sea with a spoon with Saint Augustine's attempts understand the Holy Trinity. Engraving by B. Farjat after A. Scilla.

    Scilla, Agostino, 1639-1700. | Reference: 3505i
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    Saint Augustine of Hippo: a child compares its attempt to empty the sea with a spoon with Saint Augustine's attempts understand the Holy Trinity. Line engraving by J. Rolls after Benvenuto Tisi, il Garofalo.

    Garofalo, Benvenuto Tisi da, 1481-1559. | Date: [between 1800 and 1899] | Reference: 3502i
    Part of: National Gallery of pictures by the great masters.
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    Saint Augustine of Hippo: a child compares its attempt to empty the sea with a spoon with Saint Augustine's attempts understand the Holy Trinity. Pen and ink drawing.

    | Date: 28 July 1723 | Reference: 33588i
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    Saint Augustine of Hippo: a child compares its attempt to empty the sea with a spoon with Saint Augustine's attempts understand the Holy Trinity. Stipple engraving by P.W. Tomkins, 1816, after W.W. Hodgson after B. Tisi, il Garofalo.

    Garofalo, Benvenuto Tisi da, 1481-1559. | Date: Nov.r 1 1816 | Reference: 8568i
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    The anthropomorphic lens : anthropomorphism, microcosmism, and analogy in early modern thought and visual arts / edited by Walter S. Melion, Bret Rothstein, and Michel Weemans.

    | Date: [2015]
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