The Christ Child setting alight the believer's heart with the fire of his wounds. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.

  • Anton Wierix II
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[1600?]
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31774i
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The Christ Child setting alight the believer's heart with the fire of his wounds. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Antwerp : Anton. Wierix, [1600?]

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1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 7.8 x 5.7 cm.

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En armatas flammis tendit Iesus manus, cor accendit hinc et illinc facibus. Age, totum comburatur, in favillam redigatur cor amoris ignibus. Anton Wierx fecit et excu. Translation of lettering: Behold Jesus holds out his hands armed with flames, and sets alight the heart with torches on this side and that. Come, let it all burn, let the heart be reduced to an ember by the fires of love

References note

M. Mauquoy-Hendrickx, Les estampes des Wierix, vol. 1, Brussels 1978, nos. 436
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. 452
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 31774i

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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