Effigies Gasparis de Coligni D. de Castilione Amir. alij Franciae etc.
Etched portrait by Jost Amman of Gaspard de Coligny (1519-1572), a French national hero and influential Huguenot leader, issued in 1573 in the aftermath of the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre in August 1572. The portrait and its scenes of the massacre, including the murder of Coligny on the orders of..... More