The magnificent religious reform movement in the 16th century gave pigeons a new mission and made them incarnate the Holy Spirit. Lucas, a Protestant, wrote in a book: "When Jesus was praying, heaven suddenly opened and the Holy Spirit became a dove and flew down to him." In a print by Diu Lei, the greatest French painter of the Renaissance, the Virgin Mary has a dove incarnated by the Holy Spirit on her head. In the paintings during the Reformation, pigeons symbolizing fate often appeared on the head of Martin Luther, the "father of the Reformation".
It was not until the17th century, at the end of the Thirty Years' War, that the dove was "reinstated as an official" and once again served as a messenger of peace. At that time, various free cities in the German Empire issued a set of commemorative coins with the pattern of a dove with an olive branch and the words "Holy dove for peace" engraved on it. Schiller, an outstanding representative of the German hurricane movement, introduced pigeons from a religious symbol of peace to politics very early. In the preface of his masterpiece The Girl of Oranci, he made Joan of Arc, a French heroine who resisted Britain, solemnly declare: "Miracles will happen-pigeons will take off, and she will defeat the vultures who ravaged our motherland with the courage of eagles!" Here, the pigeon is no longer a symbol of hope without resistance, it has become a fighter! Taking pigeons as a symbol of world peace is probably a great invention of the Spanish painter Picasso.
1950165438+10 In order to commemorate the world peace conference held by socialist countries in Warsaw, Picasso specially drew a pigeon with its head held high and its wings spread. At that time, the famous Chilean poet Nie Luda called it "the dove of peace". Since then, pigeons, as messengers of world peace, have been recognized by all countries.