Allegory with Alessandro Farnese, the Duke of Parma, as an advocate of the Catholic Church in the Netherlands, 1585. Parma as Hercules with club and shield is pointed to a rock by the personification of (Catholic) Religion to the Temple of virtue. In front of him lie defeated on the ground Artificialism (Invidia), Infatuation (Impietas) with a broken statue of saints and Hostile Power (Vis Inimica). On the palm tree on the right hang the coat of arms of Parma and images of the siege of Antwerp and the ship bridge in 1585, Allegorical portrait of Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma., print maker

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