Allegory of Abuses by the Authorities of Church and State
Allegory of Abuses by the Authorities of Church and State, by Gillis Mostaert, c. 1570-80, Flemish painting, oil on panel. The Hay Wagon in center represents secular and spiritual abuse and worldly possession and gathered near it is the pope with a cardinal, a bishop, and a monk (BSLOC_2016_2_265)
Picture No
11110272
Media ID
45267326
Size
3000px x 1685px
(1.8MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / The Everett Collection
Source
Everett Collection
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1570s 1603 Abuse Allegorical Beheading Bishops Cardinals Clergy Cruelty Decapitation Demons Flanders Forage Gillis Grotesques Imaginary Institutions Misery Monks Mostaert Narrative Nuns Pikes Reformation Skeletons Supernatural
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