Catholic Reformation

Gabriel Glickman

Pope Julius II (1443-1513)

John Skelton, Colin Clout (1521)

‘The prelates ben so haut, They say, and loke so hy, As though they wolde fly

Aboue the sterry skye. Laye men say indede How they take no hede

Theyr sely shepe to fede’

John Skelton, Colin Clout (1521)

[On the bishops]‘Some say ye syt in thrones,

Lyke prynces aquilonis, And shryne your rotten bones

With perles and precyous stones’

‘No matyns at mydnyght, Boke and chalys gone quyte’

Cardinal Reginald Pole (1500-1558)

Cardinal Carlo Borromeo (1538-1584)

Domenico Fontana (1543-1607), ceiling for Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome.

Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome

Peter Paul Rubens, altarpiece in Santa Maria in Vallicella, Rome (1606-08)

St Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556)

Abbé de Saint-Cyran (1581-1643)

Throckmorton family chapel at Harvington Hall

St Francois de Sales (1567-1622), Introduction to the Devout Life

‘as the firefly moves through the flames... The vigorous and constant

soul can find the springs of sweet piety in the midst of the brackish

waters of the world’

Richard Verstegan, Theatre des cruautez des Hereticques de nostre temps (1587)

Santa Maria della Vittoria, 1675 fresco