"The Triumph of the Church over the Heresies of the Jansenists" --- French School of the 17th century ---- from an engraving by Jean Ganière of 1654 --- Oil on canvas ---- Original gilded frame --- Canvas: cm. 97 x 73 --- Frame: cm. 120 x 95 --- Very good condition ---------- This very interesting and rare 17th-century French painting shows the Pope who, illuminated by the dove of the Holy Spirit, wields a sword of fire, accompanied by allegorical figures of Religion and the Power of the Church. ---- On the left, the King of France, with the support of Concord, Justice and Piety, drives away the Jansenists and his retinue of evils, including error, deceit and ignorance, who find refuge with the Calvinists. ---- The work transfers to canvas a print of the time made by Jean Ganière and published in a church almanac at the most bitter moment of the diatribe that saw the Church of Rome, supported by the King of France, confront the Jansenist and Calvinist movements. The engraving by Ganière is dated 1654, the year following the Papal Bull that condemns the theories of Jansenism as heretical. ----- THIS CERTIFICATE DECLARES THE AUTHENTICITY AND LAWFUL ORIGIN OF THE PAINTING.
