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Heilige Bertholdus van Regensburg wekt met een preek een vrouw terug tot leven

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Heilige Bertholdus van Regensburg wekt met een preek een vrouw terug tot leven

Aegidius Sadeler

1615
paper
width 156 mm x height 220 mm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

About This Work

The Franciscan friar Berthold is depicted mid-sermon on an elevated pulpit, gesturing toward a woman who is being raised from the dead on the floor below. Surrounding her, a crowd of men and women react with profound emotion and prayer, while a vision of the Last Judgment and the torments of Hell appears in an arched window in the background. The composition highlights the power of the saint's oratory and the physical manifestation of divine grace through his words.

Engraved by Aegidius Sadeler, the court artist for Emperor Rudolf II, this work reflects the intersection of Counter-Reformation piety and the refined Mannerist aesthetic of the Prague court. It illustrates the 'power of the word,' a concept central to both orthodox theology and the broader Renaissance interest in the transformative, quasi-magical potential of rhetoric and logos.

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Inscriptions(Latin)

B. BERTOLDVS FRANCISC.

Attonuit populos BERTOLDVS fulmine linguae,
Prostrauitq. atrox ore tonante scelus.
Vuidus indoluit Bromius sua castra relinqui;
Pulsa Venus fleuit, fleuit et ipse puer.

Millia mirati plus sexagena docentem,
Implerunt lacrimis maxima templa suis.
Plebs auida bibit aure Patris caelestia dicta,
Cum sacer Orator, quod docet, ipse facit.

Translation

B. BERTOLD OF ST. FRANCIS.

Bertold stunned the peoples with the thunder of his tongue,
And with his thundering mouth struck down atrocious crime.
Moist Bromius grieved that his camps were abandoned;
Driven away, Venus wept, and the boy himself wept.

More than sixty thousand, admiring him as he taught,
Filled the greatest temples with their tears.
The eager crowd drank in the Father’s heavenly words with their ears,
Since the holy Orator himself practices what he teaches.

Connected Texts

Berthold of Regensburg

The print depicts a specific miracle attributed to this 13th-century Franciscan preacher known for his influential sermons.

Provenance & Source

Object

Holding Institution

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Medium

paper

Dimensions

width 156 mm x height 220 mm

GenreAI

religious

Digital Source

Source

Rijksmuseum · CC0 1.0

Original Resolution

2897 × 4096 px

Harvested

March 25, 2026

Linked Data

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