A_Monk_as_the_Devil's_Bagpipes,_1535.jpg
Summary
Description A Monk as the Devil's Bagpipes, 1535.jpg |
English:
The caricature shows a fat monk, used as bagpipe by the devil. The monk-bagpipe is not Martin Luther (as asserted in some popular literature), but a representative of contemporaneous monasticism which is denunciated to be inspired by the devil. The German text says:
Once I (the devil) piped here and there
Deutsch:
Die Karikatur zeigt einen fetten Mönch, vom Teufel als Dudelsack gebraucht. Im beigefügten Text klagt der Teufel, dass die vielen derartigen Pfeifen, mit denen er früher Fabeln und Fantasien verbreitete, ihm nun (durch die Reformation) zerstört seien, hofft aber, dass das nicht lange dauern werde, weil die Welt so sündig und verlogen sei:
Vor zeytten pfiff ich hin vnd her
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Source | bridgeman.co.uk |
Author | Erhard Schoen |
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