# The Calvinist Temple at Lyon [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [UNKNOWN MASTER, French]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Oil on panel ## Commentary As part of their return to apostolic purity, all the Protestant churches were in some measure hostile to the representation of God in human form, to the use of images in worship, to praying to saints, and to the mediating role of the priesthood. A French Protestant church is bare of images, the only decoration being texts and heraldry. Instead of an altar, the pulpit is the focus of the service. ## Related artworks - [A Knight of the Golden Fleece]() - [A Miracle of St Benedict]() - [Adam]() - [Allegory of the Vanity of Earthly Things]() - [Altar frontal: Christ and Angels]() - [Annunciation]() - [Apostle \(detail\)]() - [Apostle]() - [Archangel Gabriel]() - [Book cover]() - [Book cover]() - [Bust of Cardinal Duprat]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()