Abstract
The connection between body and soul after death, however, remains ambiguous: is the soul given its body back when it resurrects? In fact, there are three major different views on the subject: according to Paul, the resurrected body is purely spiritual; according to others, such as Gregory of Nyssa, it transforms itself into an ethereal body like the one of an angel; according to another tradition, led by Augustine, it finds itself again in its full materiality. Two features of the souls are to be examined in order to fully appreciate Pieter van der Borcht's prints: their size and their nakedness. During the 16th and 17th centuries, the representation of the soul in human form continues a tradition started in the late Middle Ages, especially in episodes such as the death of the rich man and Lazarus or in iconographies of anonymous individuals on their deathbed. Keywords: Gregory of Nyssa; late middle ages; Pieter van der Borcht; soul
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