Peace Urges the Churches to Tolerance

Peace Urges The Churches Towards Tolerance (Dutch: Vrede maant de kerken tot verdraagzaamheid) is a 1600–1624 allegorical painting by an unknown artist. It was donated to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam in 1968 by Bosman, a Brussels-based collector for whom it had been purchased anonymously in France earlier that year. It has been on long-term loan to the Catharijneconvent Museum in Utrecht since 1977.

From left to right Jean Calvin, an unidentified pope and Martin Luther sit round a table. Luther plays a lute, whilst Calvin squeezes half an orange over his plate of lamb (symbolising the Calvinism of the House of Orange) and gives the pope the other used-up half to put in a pot. A female personification of Peace enters from the left bearing an olive branch, whilst to the right is he Anabaptist Menno Simons on all fours taking a tray of bread from the fire. Two paintings in the background sho…

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