The Third Era: The Law of Grace of the New Testament

from the series The Three Laws Governing the Three Ages of the World, before 1580. Engraving, 22.5 x 27.4 cm. Harvard Art Museums / Fogg Museum, Gift of Robert Bradford Wheaton and Barbara Ketcham Wheaton. New Hollstein 1805.
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Surrounded by a fiery aureole, the personification of the New Law, a young wife, holds on her lap the book with seven seals and confers a crown and palm branch, signs of victory, on the young child kneeling at her feet. The lamb beside her places its forepaws on the book. Behind her at left, Christian men and women gather to drink from a fountain watered by the blood of Christ, who stands atop it, displaying the cross. Behind her at right, the Tree of Life sprouts new leaves and branches.
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- creditHieronymus Wierix (Flemish, 1553–1619) after Maarten de Vos (Flemish, 1532–1603)
- series number02
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