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Gift of Understanding
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
In a niche, the female personification of the gift of understanding, one of the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. She wears a winged crown and holds a lightning bolt in her right hand. At the bottom, the biblical text from the Wisdom of Jesus Sirach 34:9-10 in Latin. The print is part of an album.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineGave van verstand. 1653 - 1654. Adriaen Collaert. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
