Portrait of Jan Beukelsz. van Leiden (Jan van Leyden), Romeyn de Hooghe, in or before c. 1701 print Portrait of Jan Beukelsz. in Leiden (Jan van Leyden) from a series of 28 portraits in the second part of history of churches and Ketteren from the beginning of the new will until the year on Onses Lords 1688 from Godfried Arnold (1701). Jan Beukelsz., Aka Jan van Leiden was around 1534-35 the self-crowned king of the backlower in Munster, the place of the new Jerusalem. The moment is shown on the print when Beukelsz. The market square enters to speak. Beukelsz. - richly dressed - is depicted in
Portrait of Jan Beukelsz. van Leiden (Jan van Leyden), Romeyn de Hooghe, in or before c. 1701 print Portrait of Jan Beukelsz. in Leiden (Jan van Leyden) from a series of 28 portraits in the second part of history of churches and Ketteren from the beginning of the new will until the year on Onses Lords 1688 from Godfried Arnold (1701). Jan Beukelsz., Aka Jan van Leiden was around 1534-35 the self-crowned king of the backlower in Munster, the place of the new Jerusalem. The moment is shown on the print when Beukelsz. The market square enters to speak. Beukelsz. - richly dressed - is depicted in full length and in front view, leaning with his right hand on a sword and his right foot resting on the name block. A young servant hands him the Bible on which the royal crown lies with globe which looks like the Keizerskroon of the Holy Roman Empire. Behind him, a lakei holds his horse on the halter. Two more moments from the history of Jan van Leyden were depicted: after the army had taken Munster in 1535, he was imprisoned for accusing a forbidden religion in the city. He was sentenced to death: Beukelsz is left. Did dressed to a pole bound where he is processed with glowing pliers. The outcome can be seen in the background: the body of Beukelsz. Has been put in a cage and hung on the south side of the Sint-Lambertuskerk in Münster as an attraction. Netherlands paper etching / engraving Münster
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