Credo Masterpieces of Religious Art. Mettingen, Draiflessen, 2010, 320pp. original illustrated softcover binding, Exhibition catalogue of an exhibition held in 2011. Museum owned by the Dutch Brenninkmeijer family. Foreword by Joseph Brennikmeijer. Donated by Thera Folmer -Van Over (dedication in pencil on titlepage) to Henk (Hendrik Willem) van Os (28 February 1938 - 14 June 2025) who was a Dutch art historian. He served as professor of Art and Cultural History, director of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and presenter of television programs on art. l With its second special exhibition, the Draiflessen Collection presented prayers - the Lord’s Prayer, the Apostle’s Creed, the Hail Mary - expressed in images, based on exhibits from the fourteenth to eighteenth century, all on loan from international museums and collections. The focus was Peter Paul Rubens and his studio’s Apostle series, images characterized by sharp physiognomy and heroic depiction, and in which each apostle allegorizes a verse of the profession of faith. Collected around these works were more than one hundred paintings, sculptures, graphic works, drawings and decorative art objects by European masters, including works by El Greco, Antoon van Dyck, and Jan Brueghel the Elder. The exhibition pursued the goal of opening up a perspective that facilitates an understanding of the works beyond the intense imagery, which continues to be breathtaking to this very day. It thus directed the gaze to the religious value of the works for the people of the late Middle Ages and early modern period, a value that viewers today are often no longer able to comprehend.