Satire on the Papacy, 1555, Etching, Sheet: 8 x 5 in. (20.3 x 12.7 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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Satire, Papacy, 1555, Etching, Sheet, 8 x 5, 20.3 12.7 cm, Prints, Melchior Lorck, Danish, Flensburg, 1526–after, 1588, Hamburg, etching, large group, harshly satirical, depictions, pope produced, immediate aftermath, Reformation, caricatured pope, represented, three heads, middle bears, papal tiara, left, turban, right, infant
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