Vintage Church Door Entry Renaissance Architecture Postcard

Vintage illustration Renaissance Era architectural image of a church facade (the doors of the people) from the Canon of the Five Orders of Architecture by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, 1562. The church entrance facade has text regarding Pope Pius IV and the insignia of the papacy which includes the image of two Crossed Keys, one gold and one silver, bound with a red cord. This represents the "keys to the Kingdom of Heaven" (Matthew 16:19; cf. Isaiah 22:22) and is in many ways the quintessential symbol of the Papacy as an institution and of its central role within the Catholic Church. Jesus's statement to Simon Peter, "whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven", is understood in Roman Catholic theology as establishing two jurisdictions, Heaven and Earth; the silver and gold keys are said to represent these two jurisdictions. The silver key symbolizes the power to bind and loose on Earth, and the gold key the power to bind and loose in Heaven (another interpretation says that the silver key represents "binding" and the golden key represents "loosing").