De heilige Benedictus zittend tussen de heiligen Bruno en Bernard, Jan de Bisschop, after Francesco Vanni, after Giovanni Lanfranco, 1668 - 1671

Title(s)

De heilige Benedictus zittend tussen de heiligen Bruno en Bernard
Paradigmata graphices variorum artificum (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1905-6575

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 6
• Gelder&Jost 47-1(3)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228
• signature: ‘Vannitus inv.’

Description

Drie heiligen zittend in een landschap. Links de heilige Bruno, in het midden Benedictus en rechts Bernard. Op de achtergrond achter een steen een bisschop, Johannes de Doper en een man met baard.

Artist

• print maker: Jan de Bisschop
• after design by: Francesco Vanni (mentioned on object)
• after drawing by: Giovanni Lanfranco (attributed to)

Place

Northern Netherlands

Dating

1668 - 1671

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 155 mm × width 205 mm

What

• Benedict of Nurcia, abbot of Monte Cassino and founder of the Benedictine Order; possible attributes: aspergillum, book, cup (sometimes broken), raven with loaf, sieve (or tray)
• the founder of the Order of the Carthusians, Bruno; possible attributes: cross, finger at lips, lily, mitre at his feet, olive-branch, ray of light, skull, (seven) star(s)
• Bernard of Clairvaux, Cistercian monk and abbot; possible attributes: beehive, chained dragon, crucifix, cross with instruments of the Passion, (three) mitre at his feet, white dog

Credit line

• M.E. van den Brink Bequest, Velp

Acquisition

bequest 1905

Copyright

Public domain

• Berckheyde - Bodding, p. 44, cat.nr. 6
• Jan de Bisschop and his icones and paradigmata : classical antiquities and Italian drawings for artisstic instrumentation in seveneenth century Holland, p. 275, cat.nr. 47