TACITO PREDICATORE: THE ANNUNCIATION CHAPEL AT THE MADONNA DEI MONTI IN ROME From: The Catholic Historical Review | Date: October 1, 2004| Author: Wood, Carolyn H; Kaufman, Peter Iver | Copyright Catholic University of America Press Oct 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Trent could not have been clearer. Images were permitted in churches to instruct the faithful and confirm their faith. And bishops should approve only those commissions and depictions that would serve such purposes. Late in 1563, the council's twenty-fifth and final session explicitly advised that "stories of the mysteries of our redemption . . . in paintings and other representations" enable visitors to reflect on articles of the faith challenged at that time by Protestants less well dispose...