Grotesque caricature of the Roman Church (right plate)
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
Grotesque and extensive satirical print on the Roman Catholic Church, ca. 1560. Right panel of a triptych. The entrance to a Catholic church and a view into the interior where various grotesque and deformed people and monsters perform and attend Catholic ceremonies. On the left, money is made through the trade in various paraphernalia and a priest leads mass with bare buttocks. In the foreground the beginning of a procession and dancing figures around a crucifix. In front of the church entrance sit the prostitutes Oholah and Oholiba with their lower bodies bare. With a caption of 3 columns of 3 lines each in Latin. The legend for the numbers in the representation is missing.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description