Saint Norbert in some Flemish Engravings of the Seventeenth Century ; San Norberto en algunas estampas flamencas del siglo XVII

The interest of the Spanish artistic historiography for the representations of the Saint of German origin, Saint Norbert, has been very scarce. Hence the interest of this article in which we address the study of a series of prints of this saint, made in Antwerp throughout the seventeenth century. Like other medieval saints canonized in the heat of the Tridentine Council, it was because he responded to the new model of sanctity defended by the Church: he was preacher of Antwerp, founder of a religious order, defender of the Eucharist and faced the heretic Tanchelino. All of them aspects that we... Mehr ...