Book Title: Traité de la Communion sous les deux especes. Par Messire Jacques Benigne Bossuet ...

Author: Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, 1627-1704

Image Title: Historiated Headpiece

Description: An eschatological historiated headpiece features a saintly woman figure atop a funnel of clouds holding a small cross in her right hand and an open book in her left, which reads SANCT EVANG (“Holy Evangelist”). Several demonic figures with horns and wings are being smothered under the cloud, as well as secular kings or royalty, evoking an apocalyptic triumph of good over evil. In the upper left register a pair of detached legs stand on a ledge.

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