Apocalypse and Satirical Allegories on the Church (BM 1911,0708.109)
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Allegory on the round table of vices; an open space with a round table, in the front three Catholic clerics, on the left a cardinal approaching a youth, in the centre a bishop playing cards with a women, on the right a monk drinking with a nun, at their feet a baby, in the back row an emperor and a king, both injured, playing backgammon, in the centre an injured pope, counting money, his tiara in front of him on the table, from his mouth are emerging demons, next to the pope a doctor holding a glass with an urine sample (?), on the right a couple talking, on the left behind the kings a tree with a sword and a arrow, in the far background on the left an angel with a cross protecting a group of people from Catholic clerics, and on the right and Turkish warriors driving people into a lake; one of forty-eight woodcuts of the incomplete set 'Apocalypse and Satirical Allegories on the Church', without text or title-page, bound in one volume (BM 1911-7-8-103 to 150). 1546
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