''Saint Teresa of Ávila's Vision of the Holy Spirit'' is a 1612-1614 painting by

Peter Paul Rubens Sir Peter Paul Rubens (; ; 28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat from the Duchy of Brabant in the Southern Netherlands (modern-day Belgium). He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradi ...

. It is now in the

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Municipal Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen () is an art museum in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The name of the museum is derived from the two most important collectors of Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans and Daniël George van Beuningen. It is located a ...

Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"Ne ...

. It shows a vision described by

Teresa of Avila Teresa (also Theresa, Therese; french: Thérèse) is a feminine given name. It originates in the Iberian Peninsula in late antiquity. Its derivation is uncertain, it may be derived from Greek θερίζω (''therízō'') "to harvest or rea ...

in her autobiography and (with two other versions in a private collection and at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge) is one of three surviving versions of the subject by the artist.

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*Vlieghe, Hans, ''Saints (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, 8), nr. 152'', Arcade, Brussel, 1972 *Jansen, Guido M.C., ''De verzameling van de Stichting Willem van der Vorm in het Museum Boymans-van Beuningen Rotterdam'' = ''Collection of the Willem van der Vorm Foundation at the Boymans Museum Rotterdam'', nr. 5, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1994 *de Poorter, Nora, ''Rubens en zijn tijd'', Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1996, 18 {{DEFAULTSORT:Saint Teresa of Avila's Vision of the Holy Spirit 1614 paintings Paintings by Peter Paul Rubens Paintings in the collection of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Paintings of Teresa of Ávila Books in art Skulls in art Holy Spirit