Mirror of Delight

Centrally Emperor Otto I looks in a mirror. Around him examples of other kings who indulged in pleasure and vanity: Saul, Antiochus and Aman. In the sky left Lucifer and two fallen angels; right the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. In the foreground right a youth looks at his own reflection in the water; Left a mother monkey feeds her young. The print has a Latin inscription: 'Quisquis es ipse tui procus et riualis amoris: Siqua tibi fuerat gratia tota perit'. At the bottom a legend of the scenes which are numbered alphabetically on the image. The print is part of a twelve-print series (IV out of XII prints) with the subject twelve mirrors with which man tries to see God.