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Saint Teresa of Ávila's Vision of the Holy Spirit

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Painting by Peter Paul Rubens

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

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

References

  1. "Saint Teresa of Avila's Vision of the Dove - Peter Paul Rubens (in 1612 - 1614)".
  2. "Hans Vlieghe, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard - Part VIII - Saints II (Brussels: Arcade Press, 1973), page 163" (PDF).
  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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