Personificatie van het Geloof Fides. NL-HlmNHA 1477 53010741

Fides is depicted as a robust woman with a veiled head, looking down at the pages of an open book. In her right hand, she holds a simple wooden cross, while her surroundings include stone ruins and a leafy tree. The engraving exhibits the muscular, dynamic linework characteristic of the Haarlem Mannerist school.

This work represents the synthesis of Christian virtue and classical allegorical form central to the intellectual life of the Haarlem Mannerists. It reflects the humanist project of defining moral foundations through visual emblems during the religious and political shifts of the late 16th-century Netherlands.