Portretten op een contrareformatorisch altaarstuk: Wouter Pietersz. Crabeths Tenhemelopneming van Maria uit 1628

Portraits on a counter-reformation altarpiece: Wouter Pietersz. Crabeth’s Assumption of 1628 This article identifies two disguised portraits in Wouter Pietersz. Crabeth’s Assumption (1628), which is kept in ‘Het Catharinagasthuis’ (The Gouda Municipal Museum). Two of the apostles show the features of respectively father Petrus Purmerent of the Gouda church of Saint John the Baptist and probably apostolic vicar Philippus Rovenius. Special attention will furthermore be paid to the figure of Saint Paul – from a counter-reformation perspective