Heinrich Aldegrever (1501-1555) - Death and the Pope / Description: The Power of Death/ Allegory of Original Sin and Death: Death and the Pope; Death standing next to the pope seated on a baldachin at left; the Pope holding the imperial crown with which he is about to invest the kneeling emperor at right; a cardinal and bishop standing at right, behind them another figure of Death holding up an hourglass; a devil hovering on the pope's baldachin; from a series of eight engravings. 1541 / Dimensions: 7,80 x 5,10 cm Good contrasted impression in very good condition. On laid paper with tread margins. / Literature: New Hollstein (German) / The New Hollstein: German engravings, etchings and woodcuts 1400-1700 (139) --- Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (VIII.405.139) --- Made by Aldegrever after a selection of Holbein's woodcut to 'Les simulachres & historiees faces de la mort ...', M. and G. Trechsel for Frellon at Lyon, 1538.
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