Satire on the Papacy, 1555, Etching, Sheet: 8 x 5 in. ( x cm), Prints, Melchior Lorck (Danish, Flensburg 1526

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Satire on the Papacy, 1555, Etching, Sheet: 8 x 5 in. ( x cm), Prints, Melchior Lorck (Danish, Flensburg 1526–after 1588 Hamburg (?)), This etching is one of a large group of harshly satirical depictions of the pope produced during the immediate aftermath of the Reformation. The caricatured pope is represented with three heads: the one in the middle bears the papal tiara, the one at left a turban, while the one at right is represented as that of an infant

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Size: 3552px × 5529px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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