Of all the books distributed in the world, the Bible is certainly the one that has received the greatest number of editions in the greatest number of languages. He is also the one who, over the centuries, has been most widely illustrated, The most abundant production of these biblical illustrations was carried out for the Missals of the seventeenth-eighteenth centuries, where it is placed in connection with the liturgical feasts, engraved by artists as remarkable as Jacques Rigaud, brilliantly reinterpreting the tradition of the great French painters of the century of Louis XIV.