Mirror of Life, Theodore Galle, 1610 Canvas Print

Mirror of Life, Theodore Galle, 1610 Canvas Print

In the foreground, a mirror with a skull. Around the mirror four snakes, symbol of the inheritance sin. A believer sits under the mirror on a coffin. Two skeletons stand on either side of the mirror and point their arrows at the believer. In the background Moses and the burning braambos; Adam and Eve in the Earth's Paradise; the blessing of two devout believers by a priest; At the back right, a boy with a splinter in his eye is reprimanded by an older man with a beam in his eye. The print has a Latin caption: 'Huc ades: et quid fis, quid eris, fuerife, tuere. Huic specvlo titulus'. At the bottom a legend of the scenes that are numbered alphabetically on the image. The print is part of a twelve-part series (VI from XII prints) with the subject twelve mirrors with which man tries to see God.

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