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Image Not Available for Destruction of a Convent (Devastation d'un Monastre)
Destruction of a Convent (Devastation d'un Monastre)
Image Not Available for Destruction of a Convent (Devastation d'un Monastre)
ClassificationsWorks of Art on Paper
Artist (French, 1592 - 1635)

Destruction of a Convent (Devastation d'un Monastre)

Date1633
MediumEtching
Credit LineGift of Clark Poling
Object number2018.012.003
ProvenanceEx coll. Clark Poling (1940-2021), Decatur, Georgia.
InscribedHere, in a sacrilegious and barbarous action, these maddened, avaricious demons pillage and burn everything, demolish the altars, laugh at the respect due to the Immortals, and drag from the holy places the disconsolate virgins, whom they dare to carry off to be violated.
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