Raphael Sadeler (1560-1632), from a drawing by Maarten de Vos
Blessed Martius
"MARTIVS Aruerna pater et contemptor honoris Permutat sacrum sponte ligone predum.
Ato sibi caueam fodit, in qua vivere polsit, Immo mori, cui mors nul nisi vita fuit."
Original etching on coeval copper plate. From:
SOLITUDO SIVE VITAE PATRUM EREMICOLARUM Per antiquissimum Patrem D. Hieronimum eorundem primarium olim conscripta: iam vero primum aeneis laminis idà ioannis et Raphael Sadeler frairù imprensis scampt: et excusa.
This etching, datablel on 1580, represents Blessed Martius from Pieve di Compresseto, Italy.
Assembled in beautiful artisanal frame.