D. Catharinae Senensis virginis Ss.mae Ord. Praedicatorum vita ac miracula selectiora formis aeneis expressa
A 1603 Antwerp devotional book printed by Philippus Gallaeus, with engravings by Cornelis Galle after designs by Jan van der Straet and text by Michel van Ophovens, telling the life and miracles of Saint Catherine of Siena for a Dominican readership. The plates are dense black-and-white engravings with framed scenes, halos, clouds and rays of light, and crowded groups of saints and kneeling figures, giving a designer a clear model for organising religious narrative into single framed compositions with strong radiating light and cloud-based staging.
