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Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita; Maximus Confessor (scholia); George Pachymeres (paraphrase) · 1615

A full-length copperplate engraving of Saint Dionysius the Areopagite. He is depicted as an elderly man with a long, flowing beard and a halo, dressed in ornate liturgical vestments (polystavrion) featuring a pattern of crosses. He holds a jeweled Gospel book in his left hand and his right hand is placed over his chest. He stands within a classical arched stone doorway. In the background, a detailed landscape shows a walled city with a prominent church spire and rolling hills. The floor is a checkered pattern of tiles.
He was, in his bodily form, of middle stature, slender, somewhat sallow, slightly snub-nosed, with knit eyebrows, hollow-eyed, having large ears, gray-haired, long-haired, with a moderately thick beard, comely in the growth of his hair, slightly prominent of belly, and long-fingered in his hands.