5552A

Saint Thomas Aquinas driving a six-headed dragon

Artist: Workshop of Niccolò Angelo Tinassi (active between 1654 and 1696)
Title: Saint Thomas Aquinas driving a six-headed dragon
Date: By 1687
Medium: Engraving. After a 1662 design by Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berretini) (1595-1669) via an engraving by François Spierre (1639-1681). Both the Cortona design and the Spierre engraving show Saint Michael the Archangel instead of Aquinas. Versions of this engraving were used as frontispieces for the Missale sacri ordinis praedicatorum of 1687, 1705, 1728, and 1768. The version illustrated here comes from the 1705 edition. It was published in Rome by Francisco Gonzaga at the Typographia of Niccolò Angelo Tinassi.
Photo Source: Archives of the Dominican Curia
Item: 5552A

Correspondences: Archive: 5552A/5552B; Archive: 5552A/5552B; Archive: 5552A/5552B; 5552A/5552B