Regia via crvcis
Regia via crucis is a Latin devotional book on the Stations of the Cross by Benedictus van Haeften, printed in Antwerp in 1635 at the Plantin press for a Catholic readership. The four pictures are decorative initial letters, each a large capital framing a robed, haloed saint or churchman against a woodcut landscape of hills, churches, and rays of light. A designer could take from them the dense parallel hatching of seventeenth-century woodcut, the letterform-as-frame device, and the pairing of sacred figures with small architectural scenes.
