L'Auto-da-fé, ou l'Acte de Foi et suplice des Condamnez
A pair of engravings depicting condemned heretics performing an auto-da-fé, or act of faith, as penance prior to being burned at the stake during the Inquisition (top) and condemned heretics during the Inquisition being publically burnt at the stake (bottom).
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733
Rollin, fils
Paris (France)
Banier, M. l'abbé (Antoine), 1673-1741
French
Inquisition
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Burning (Execution)
Faith
Penance
Public executions
Heretics
Catholic Church
Eighteenth century
45 cm (approx.)
Still image
engravings (prints)
Histoire générale des cérémonies, moeurs, et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde: Volume 2
1741 BANI V.2
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