Satire op het machtsmisbruik van de rooms-katholieke geestelijkheid, Bernard van Orley, 1527 - 1541

Title(s)

Satire op het machtsmisbruik van de rooms-katholieke geestelijkheid

Object type

• drawing

Object number

RP-T-1905-21

Artist

• draughtsman: Bernard van Orley

Dating

1527 - 1541

Material

• paper
• ink
• chalk

Technique

pen / brush

Measurements

height 417 mm × width 777 mm

What

• entrance of hell as monstrous mouth (of Leviathan)
• abuses of the clergy, e.g. simony
• (aspects of) Christian Religion or the Church (as institution) ridiculed, criticized, or caricaturized

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

Acquisition

purchase 19-Jan-1904

Copyright

Public domain

• Michiel Coxcie : de Vlaamse Rafaël, p. 14, afb. 8
• The luminous image : painted glass roundels in the Lowlands, 1480-1560, Timothy B. Husband, Ellen Konowitz, Zsuzsanna van Ruyven-Zeman, Ilja M. Veldman, p. 25, fig. 17
• Netherlandish drawings of the 15th and 16th centuries, cat.nr. 380
• Koenraad Jonckheere, 'An allegory of artistic choice in times of trouble. Pieter Bruegel's Tower of Babel', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek (2014), p. 192-193, afb. 6.