Sex and alcohol smother all piety, Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert, After Adriaan de Weerdt, 1604 print The personification of piety (Pietas) is strangled by Lust (Venus) and alcoholic (Bacchus). In the background, piety is buried (left), while alcoholism and lust triumphantly are carried into the monastery. 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. paper etching / engraving (story of) Bacchus (Dionysus), Liber. (story of) Venus (Aphrodite). Pi
Sex and alcohol smother all piety, Dirck Volckertsz. Coornhert, After Adriaan de Weerdt, 1604 print The personification of piety (Pietas) is strangled by Lust (Venus) and alcoholic (Bacchus). In the background, piety is buried (left), while alcoholism and lust triumphantly are carried into the monastery. 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. paper etching / engraving (story of) Bacchus (Dionysus), Liber. (story of) Venus (Aphrodite). Piety, 'Pietas', 'Timor Dei' ~ the Three Theological Virtues. violent death by strangling. abbey, monastery, convent ~ Roman Catholic church. burial Low Countries
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