Bavaria sancta
Bavaria sancta is a 1615 illustrated collection of saints' lives compiled by Matthäus Rader in Munich, a Latin-language devotional work for Catholic readers in Bavaria. Its pages are engraved plates, each with a framed scene of a saint's miracle or death above a Latin caption block and a monogram label, showing crowded architectural interiors, dramatic skies and kneeling figures in clear line work a designer could study for compositional framing and early seventeenth-century Baroque staging.
