Sujet

Representation of the Catholic Church as The Fortress of Faith, 15th century (1877). Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Representation of the Catholic Church as The Fortress of Faith, 15th century (1877). The defending forces of the Christian faith. Besieged by the impious and heretics, it is defended by the Pope, the bishops, the monks, and the Doctors of the Church, who are the knights of the faith. From a 15th-century miniature. Detail. From "Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen age et à l'Epoque de la Renaissance". Paris, 1877.

Date

1400

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/LTL

Notre référence

HRM26A26_024

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

30.8Mo (1.8Mo) / 26.5cm x 29.1cm / 3130 x 3441 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors building female women woman people male group man men historical religious arts flag flags detail religion art book guy faith monk monks castle color defending medieval fortress Christian Christianity fortifications fortification Catholic Catholicism century banner Roman Catholic symmetry battlements print literature miniature concept details printing defender symmetrical bishop standard metaphor Colour Day 19th century description Pope mediaeval Middle Ages Roman Catholicism 1870s Catholic Church lithograph nineteenth century history historic 15th century besieged chromolithograph fifteenth century heresy heretic under siege lithography outside portrait chromolithograph Unknown Paul Paul Lacroix Lacroix lithotint 1877 19th-century lithographic Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Agee LT L