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![WIERIX, Hieronymus; [after] Marten de VOS Spirituale Christiani militis certamen.](https://crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2262_1H.jpg?x86364)
Spirituale Christiani militis certamen.
Antwerp,
Gerard De Jode,
[1591].
Engraving, laid down.
2262
notes:
The source of the figures depicted upon the famous 'Christian Knight' Map.
The human figures illustrate the battle between Catholics and Protestants. The armoured 'Christian' knight represents King Henry IV of France, a Protestant ally. The figures fighting him symbolize Catholicism: (left to right) Worldly Vanity, Sin, Carnal Weakness, the Devil, and Death. To the upper left is a path that leads to the New Jerusalem. The engraving was in used by Jodocus Hondius ...
The human figures illustrate the battle between Catholics and Protestants. The armoured 'Christian' knight represents King Henry IV of France, a Protestant ally. The figures fighting him symbolize Catholicism: (left to right) Worldly Vanity, Sin, Carnal Weakness, the Devil, and Death. To the upper left is a path that leads to the New Jerusalem. The engraving was in used by Jodocus Hondius ...
bibliography:
BM 1874,1212.484; G.Bartrum in F. Carey (ed.), 'The Apocalypse and the Shape of Things to Come', exh. cat., BM, London 1999, p.193, no.102.
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