Author: Dana Rehn

Social Historian of Early Modern European Art

Satire of the Monks: Exposing False Piety in Interactive Prints during the Protestant Reformation

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Keywords: Protestant propaganda, interactive prints, Reformation, satire, Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch, The act of revelation was explored in interactive prints with folding flaps and spinning dials to demonstrate that the Catholic Church was something more sinister than what they externally portrayed. In this way, their outward, physical appearance from their tonsured haircut to their clerical… Continue reading Satire of the Monks: Exposing False Piety in Interactive Prints during the Protestant Reformation

Prophecy of the Reformation: Eyn Wunderliche Weyssagung

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Keywords: Protestant Reformation, prophecies, Hans Sachs, Martin Luther, Andreas Osiander In a distinctly different interpretation on the theme of anthropomorphised wolves in Protestant propaganda to illustrate wolves in sheep clothing is a hand-coloured woodcut of a wolf grasping a sword before Pope Innocent VI (c.1282-132). This different metaphorical symbol for the papacy was designed by… Continue reading Prophecy of the Reformation: Eyn Wunderliche Weyssagung

Cynocephali and Signs of ‘Barbarous’ Language

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Keywords: Hand Gesture, cynocephali, barking, John of Plano Carpini, Martin Waldseemüller The dog-headed cynocephali were frequently depicted with their hands raised or pointing. Hand gestures were recognised in ancient Greece and Rome as a part of universal human expression, used for persuasive and emotive discourse (Kendon, 2004, p. 17). As the Roman rhetorician, Marcus Fabius… Continue reading Cynocephali and Signs of ‘Barbarous’ Language

Halloween Compilation 2022

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Witches in Sixteenth-Century Germany: The belief in witches, what they were accused of and why 'The witch trials demonstrated fear of the power of women’s sexuality. The female witch was understood to be a product of woman’s excessive carnal lust who were affiliated with fornication and orgies with the Devil. This made them more susceptible… Continue reading Halloween Compilation 2022

Dog-Pig Hybrids and the Heretical Teachings of the Jesuits during the Counter Reformation

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Keywords: Jesuits, Peter (or Petrus) Canisius, Martin Eisengrein, Judensau (‘Jewish sow’), dog-pig hybrids, Reformation Updated: 05.10.2022 The act of revelation was explored in Protestant Reformation prints to demonstrate that the Catholic Church were something more sinister than what they externally portrayed. In this way, their outward, physical appearance from their tonsured haircut to their clerical… Continue reading Dog-Pig Hybrids and the Heretical Teachings of the Jesuits during the Counter Reformation