ANGELS: Dynastic Return To The Old Faith by Willibald Sauderländer
From The Catholic Rubens: Saints and Martyrs The Archangel Michael Altar for Duke Wilhelm of Pfalz-Neuburg A vehement and stormy altarpiece demonstrates how Peter Paul Rubens contributed his furia del pennello [brush fury] to the confessional struggles surging through Bavaria before and during the Thirty Years War. At issue in this case was the reconversion of the collateral line of the Wittelsbach family in Pfalz-Neuburg, who had fallen away from the old faith. When Wolfgang Wilhelm, the eldest son of the rigidly Lutheran count palatine Philipp Ludwig, reconverted to Roman Catholicism in order to marry a sister of Duke Maximilian of Bavaria in 1613, the Jesuits appeared in Neuburg that same year as confessors and preachers. [...]
The Value of Sparrows 