Musaeum Celeberrimum (Romani Collegii)

A large portrait of Athanasius Kircher is depicted in an oval frame. He is wearing a Jesuit habit and biretta, with a bookshelf visible in the background. The oval frame contains text, and below the portrait is a cartouche with a Latin inscription.

The painter or the poet might say in vain: HERE HE IS:
Both his face and his name are known to the land of the Antipodes.