Icones Sanctae Clarae B. Francisci Assisiatis primigeniae discipulae : vitam, miracula, mortem repraesentantes
Icones Sanctae Clarae is a set of engraved devotional plates of Saint Clare of Assisi's life, miracles and death, made by Henricus Sedulius with engraver Adriaen Collaert and Adam van Noort, printed in Antwerp for a Catholic devotional audience. The plates are numbered single-scene engravings with Latin captions below each image, showing crowded architectural interiors, dense crosshatched shading, robed figures in groups and a strong sense of ceremony. A designer could take from them the staging of multi-figure narrative scenes, the use of columns and arches to frame action, and the tonal range of fine line engraving.
