. Allegory with Alessandro farnese, the Duke of Parma, as a prior fighter of the Catholic Church in the Netherlands, 1585. Parma as Hercules with clubs and shield is rejected by the personification of (Catholic) religion to the temple of virtue on a rock. Before him there are reports on the ground envy (invidia), inhabitity (impite bag) with a broken saints and hostile power (Fish Inimica). On the palm tree on the right, the arms of Parma and images of the Siege of Antwerp and the Schipbrug laid down in 1585.

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