March 18 – June 17, 2012
Manresa Gallery is pleased to present a collection of copperplates engraved by the Wierix Brothers at the turn of the seventeenth exhibited for the first time in the United States from the Nederlandse Provincie der Jezuïeten, Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
The modern prints and original plates in the exhibition provide today’s viewers with potent images of Christ, the angels, founders of Orders and the Virgin Mary. The images influenced not only vowed religious but also devout Catholic laity in Europe and elsewhere.
Opening Reception
Sunday, March 18 from 12:15 – 1:30pm
Manresa Gallery, St. Ignatius Church
Lecture
Engravings for Jesuits
Sunday, March 18 at 11am
Xavier Hall, Fromm Building, USF, behind St. Ignatius Church
Paul Begheyn, S.J., Director of the Netherlands Institute of Jesuit Studies in Amsterdam and Archivist of the Dutch Jesuit Province in Nijmegen, discusses the origins of the copperplates and their discovery in 2000 in De Krijtberg in Amsterdam.
Catalogue
Published on the occasion of the exhibition, a 60-page catalogue includes black and white reproductions of the prints on display from the Jesuit Wierix Collection with an essay by Paul Begheyn, S.J. Catalogues are available for purchase in the gallery for $25 (general) and $10 (students). Please email info@manresagallery if you are interested in purchasing one.
Prints
A selection of unframed prints from the original copperplates on display are for sale in the gallery from $10-35. Please inquire with the gallery sitter or email info@manresagallery.org for more information.
