Allegory of the Imperial Estates (c. 1650)

The etching below shows the pope at the top of a multi-tiered throne. The king and the secular estates appear on the right, and the emperor and the ecclesiastical estates appear on the left. Copper etching by Gerhard Altzenbach, c. 1560.

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