Bidspirit auction | Father Benedict Schnepf, The phi

Father Benedict Schnepf, The phi - Father Benedict Schnepf, The philosopher Heraclitus depicted as a bust in a cartouche, adorned with insects and withered flowers, framed by a calligraphic border, pen on parchment, signed and dated 1676 at the bottom left, indistinctly inscribed lower right, parchment heavily wavy, 73 x 50 cm, behind old glass in a relief-carved and gilded Baroque frame with allegorical scenes and figurative ornamentation, 111 x 100 cm