Wealth Brings Sex and Alcohol into the Convent

Bacchus and Venus embrace each other. Together with Cupido they stand before the Worldly Pleasures (Delitae carnis). They make their entrance into church life. In the background, a monk sits with a woman at a set table (right) and several monks enjoy the deer hunt. The print has a Dutch, Latin and French inscription and is part of a twelve-part series with the subject of the degeneration of the Catholic clergy and the causes of the uprising and the Iconoclasm.