对教皇的讽刺 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	对教皇的讽刺
品名（英）	Satire on the Papacy
入馆年号	1953年，53.677.5
策展部门	绘画和印刷品（Drawings and Prints）
创作者	Melchior Lorck【1526 至 1588】【丹麦人】
创作年份	公元 1555
创作地区
分类	印刷品（Prints）
尺寸	页: 8 x 5 英寸 (20.3 x 12.7 厘米)
介绍（中）	这幅蚀刻画是宗教改革结束后立即创作的一大群对教皇的严厉讽刺描绘之一。漫画中的教皇有三个头：中间的头戴着教皇头饰，左边的头巾，右边的头像是婴儿的头。其他特征有助于强调一些新教徒归因于天主教会代表的隐蔽，恶魔的本质：他的一只手和一只脚被描绘成一种怪诞的非人类状态，一条像蜥蜴一样的大尾巴从教皇长袍下面伸出。长袍前面贴着一枚带有青蛙徽章的胸针，青蛙是虚假宗教的常见象征。图中显示教皇将一些硬币交给一个代表士兵的人物，他拿着一把会发出火焰的戟。与教皇的混合性格一起暗示的是，教会为了军事保护的利益而贿赂，其行为是由狡猾的、动物性的本性驱动的。这幅由一位匿名的德国艺术家创作的图像代表了批评天主教会的流行印刷品类型，这种印刷品在德国和荷兰传播到 17 世纪。
介绍（英）	This etching is one of a large group of harshly satirical depictions of the pope produced during the immediate aftermath of the Reformation. The caricatured pope is represented with three heads: the one in the middle bears the papal tiara, the one at left a turban, while the one at right is represented as that of an infant. Other features serve to underscore the covert, demonic nature that some Protestants attributed to representatives of the Catholic Church: one of his hands and one of his feet are depicted in a grotesque, nonhuman state, and a large lizardlike tail extends from beneath the papal robe. Affixed to the front of the robe is a broach with the insignia of a frog, a common symbol of false religion. The pope is shown handing a number of coins to a figure represented as a soldier, who holds a halberd that emits flames. Implied together with the hybrid character of the pope is that the church bribes for the benefit of military protection, and that its actions are driven by a devious, animalistic nature. This image, by an anonymous German artist, is representative of a genre of popular print critical of the Catholic Church, disseminated well into the seventeenth century in Germany and the Netherlands.