Saint Teresa of Ávila's Vision of the Holy Spirit explained

Saint Teresa of Ávila's Vision of the Holy Spirit is a 1612-1614 painting by Peter Paul Rubens. It is now in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.^{[1] [2]}

It shows a vision described by Teresa of Avila in her autobiography and (with two other versions in a private collection^[3] and at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge) is one of three surviving versions of the subject by the artist.

Bibliography

• Vlieghe, Hans, Saints (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, 8), nr. 152, Arcade, Brussel, 1972
• Jansen, Guido M.C., De verzameling van de Stichting Willem van der Vorm in het Museum Boymans-van Beuningen Rotterdam = Collection of the Willem van der Vorm Foundation at the Boymans Museum Rotterdam, nr. 5, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1994
• de Poorter, Nora, Rubens en zijn tijd, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1996, 18

Notes and References

1. Web site: Saint Teresa of Avila's Vision of the Dove - Peter Paul Rubens (in 1612 - 1614).
2. Web site: Hans Vlieghe, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard - Part VIII - Saints II (Brussels: Arcade Press, 1973), page 163.
3. Web site: Auction 1141, Paintings and Drawings 15th - 19th C., 16.11.2019 - Lot 1048 - Peter Paul Rubens - Saint Theresa of Avila.