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Mirror of Blessedness
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
In the foreground Daniel is helped up by the angel Gabriel. In the sky a vision of heaven and the Trinity. In the background of the print Solomon in the temple and the meeting between Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. The print has a Latin inscription: 'Purga aciem mentis; Divinum lumine recto. Sedibus aethereis vt specvlere iubar'. At the bottom a legend of the scenes which are numbered alphabetically on the image. The print is part of a twelve-print series (XII out of XII prints) with the subject twelve mirrors with which man tries to see God.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineSpiegel der gelukzaligheid. 1610. Theodoor Galle. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
