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.
