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MOLANUS, Jean - PAQUOT, Jean Noël (ed.)

De Historia SS. Imaginum et picturarum pro vero earum usu contra abusus
Louvain
typis academicis
1771
€120 - €180

4to, xxxii, 676, [3] pp, binding in half leather, worn

Considerably annotated edition of a standard work on Christian art and symbolism by the Louvain theologian J. Molanus (1533-1585). It proved to be an important source for Counter-Reformation iconography. Ed. by his 18th-c. successor J.N. Paquot (1722-1803). He inserted supplements, one of the most interesting of these is a detailed list of 140 books on art arranged chronologically, giving printing places and formats Bookplate Jos. Casier

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