01 Robert Fludde's visualisation of The Fortress of Health from Medecina Catholica Frankfurt 1629. The healthy man is quarded against obnoxious diseases by the four Archangels.

02 Sir Thomas Elyot, The Castel of Helth ,London 1541, a classic study of Hygiene.

03 Titlepage to anon. Les Images des Philostrates , Paris 1615. Engraving by Isac, Gaultier and de Leu

 

see also Landscape as Metaphor

Richard Crayshaw, Steps to the Temple, frontispiece, 1648

Johannes Ebser, Onus Ecclesliae, woodcut 1631, the Devil attacks the Church