The people leads the people to ruin, Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert, After Adriaan de Weerdt, 1604 print The personification temptation (seductio) leads the three -person people (vulgus) to an abyss. The people are divided and blindfolded. Seduction contributes glasses and masks that symbolize its deception. In the background representations of this deception: a pilgrim at a statue of Mary, a procession and the worship of an altarpiece. On the right, a scholar turns away from all these events. He leaves the show with a book and a horn. The print has a Dutch, Latin and French caption and is part o
The people leads the people to ruin, Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert, After Adriaan de Weerdt, 1604 print The personification temptation (seductio) leads the three -person people (vulgus) to an abyss. The people are divided and blindfolded. Seduction contributes glasses and masks that symbolize its deception. In the background representations of this deception: a pilgrim at a statue of Mary, a procession and the worship of an altarpiece. On the right, a scholar turns away from all these events. He leaves the show with a book and a horn. The print has a Dutch, Latin and French caption and is part of a twelve -part series with the subject of the degeneration of the Catholic clergy and the causes of the rebellion and the iconoclasm. print maker: Germanyafter design by: Colognepublisher: The Hague paper etching / engraving Temptation; 'Tentatione' (Ripa). pilgrim(s). the worship of God. procession ~ Christian religion. ravine, chasm, abyss, canyon. eyeglasses, spectacles. blindfold Low Countries
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