Allegory on the siege of the true Church by Catholic and Turkish forces; in the foreground military camps, on the left, underneath a banner decorated with a book entitled 'Decret' (Papal Decrees),  the Pope on a horse with a lion's head, a bishop, a cardinal and other clerics, on the right devils on similar horses, and Turkish warriors with a banner decorated with a book entitled 'Alcoran' (Qur'an), in the background on top of a mountain a church with Jesus Christ preaching to a group of believers, on a band of clouds on the left the figures of the apostles Sts Peter and Paul, and those of the prophets Moses and St John on the right; one of forty-eight woodcuts of the incomplete set 'Apocalypse and Satirical Allegories on the Church', without text or title-page, bound in one volume (BM 1911-7-8-103 to 150). ca1558
circa 1558 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1558-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
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