Answer:
D. The stake in the saint's heart represents the Reformation.
Explanation:
Pieter Bruegel's <em>the Elder's Battle Between Carnival and Lent </em>showed different symbols as used in the painting EXCEPT The stake in the saint's heart represents the Reformation.
His paintings is rich in allegories and symbols that depict the triumph of Lent, also showing the Carnival with the figure bidding farewell with his left hand with his hands lifted to the sky.
Also in the painting, there is another figure of a large man riding on a barrel with something attached to his front. He wears a meat pie as a headdress, wielding a spit along with the head of a pig bracing for a fight.
The symbolic meaning suggested in the "Hunt of the Unicorn" series of tapestries is the Annunciation.
The "Hunt of the Unicorn" is a very famous series of seven tapestries from the period of 1495-1505. The theme of the tapestries involves a group of noblemen and hunters who are chasing a unicorn. There has been a lot of debate around the meaning of the paintings and many believe that it is an allegorical representation of the Christian celebration of the Annunciation, where the Angel Gabriel announced to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive and become the mother of Jesus.