An Allegory of the Triumph over Heresy, with St. Domenic to the Fore

A friar in a black mantle and white habit raises a torch and crucifix above a heap of fallen, writhing figures. Allegorical women with a chalice and a palm frond stand behind him, while an angel descends at upper left and a dove hovers at upper right. The drawing uses pen, gray ink and watercolor over chalk.

Look closer: A small dove hovers in the light near the top right, above the allegorical woman.

Artist

Abraham van Diepenbeeck

Date

1650–60

Medium

Pen and gray ink and watercolor, heightened with white, over black chalk

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

2729 × 3815 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2002