A report on Counter-Reformation

A copy of the Sixtine Vulgate, the Latin edition of the Catholic Bible printed in 1590 after many of the Council of Trent's reforms had begun to take place in Catholic worship
Confutatio Augustana (left) and Confessio Augustana (right) being presented to Charles V
A session of the Council of Trent, from an engraving
This 1711 illustration for the Index Librorum Prohibitorum depicts the Holy Ghost supplying the book burning fire.
Anabaptist Dirk Willems rescues his pursuer and is subsequently burned at the stake in 1569.
Peter Paul Rubens was the great Flemish artist of the Counter-Reformation. He painted Adoration of the Magi in 1624.
Matanzas Inlet, Florida, where the survivors were killed
Peak of the Reformation & beginning of the Counter-Reformation (1545–1620)
End of the Reformation & Counter-Reformation (1648)
Johann Michael Rottmayr (1729): The Catholic faith defeats Protestant heresies; part of a fresco inside Karlskirche in Vienna

The period of Catholic resurgence that was initiated in response to the Protestant Reformation, also known as the Protestant Revolution.

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The Feast in the House of Levi

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1573 oil painting by Italian painter Paolo Veronese and one of the largest canvases of the 16th century, measuring 560 x. It is now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice.

1573 oil painting by Italian painter Paolo Veronese and one of the largest canvases of the 16th century, measuring 560 x. It is now in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice.

Saints Peter and John flank Christ, with Judas the uneasy figure in red
Detail of Jester with a parrot on his arm and an Apostle picking his teeth with a fork
Detail of child
Detail of drunken German Soldiers

By painting The Feast in the House of Levi in this manner, Veronese had gone against the Council of Trent, which had been created as part of the Counter-Reformation.

Portrait by Benjamin von Block (1672)

Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor

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Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia.

Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia.

Portrait by Benjamin von Block (1672)
Europe after the Peace of Westphalia in 1648
Leopold I, painted by Guido Cagnacci (1657-1658)
Leopold I column (1673) in Trieste
The Battle of Vienna marked the historic end of the expansion of the Ottoman Empire into Europe.
Leopold I in costume as Acis in La Galatea, 1667, by Jan Thomas van Ieperen, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
Margaret Theresa in theater dress, 1667, by Jan Thomas van Ieperen, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
Detail of sarcophagus of Leopold I, Kapuzinergruft, Vienna, Austria
Hungarian Thaler of Leopold I minted in 1692. Latin inscription: Obverse, LEOPOLDVS D[EI] G[RATIA] RO[MANORVM] I[MPERATOR] S[EMPER] AVG[VSTVS] GER[MANIAE] HV[NGARIAE] BO[HEMIAE] REX ; Reverse, ARCHIDVX AVS[TRIAE] DVX BVR[GVNDIAE] MAR[CHIO] MOR[AVIAE] CO[MES] TY[ROLIS] 1692, "Leopold, by the grace of God, Emperor of the Romans, Ever Augustus, King of Germany, Hungary, and Bohemia; Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, Margrave of Moravia, Count of Tyrol 1692"
Silver coin of Leopold I, 3 Kreuzer, dated 1670. The Latin inscription reads (obverse): LEOPOLDVS D[EI] G[RATIA] R[OMANORVM] I[MPERATOR] S[EMPER] A[VGVSTVS] G[ERMANIAE] H[VNGARIAE] B[OHEMIAE] REX (reverse):ARCHID[VX] AVS[TRIAE] DVX B[VRGVNDIAE] CO[MES] TYR[OLIS] 1670. In English: "Leopold, by the Grace of God, Emperor of the Romans, always August, King of Germany, Hungary, and Bohemia, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, Count of Tyrol, 1670."

Greatly influenced by the Jesuits, he was a staunch proponent of the Counter-Reformation.