Vita B. Philippi Benicii Florent. Ord. Servor[um] B. Mariae Virginis

Grana, Damianus, Tempesta, Antonio, 1555-1630 · 1591 · Romae · 20 pictures

A 1591 Roman printed Life of Saint Philip Benizi, a Servite friar, by Damianus Grana with etched plates by Antonio Tempesta, made for a religious readership of the Servite order. Its small framed scenes show clerics in monastic habits with Latin captions beneath, and a designer might take their compact narrative layout, crowded robed figures, and cloud-and-vision registers as models for tightly staged religious storytelling.

Philip Benizi, Saint, 1233-1285 · Servites

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