Social History of Art
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Public Domain Images Scanned for My Essays
Cranach, Pope as Antichrist vs. True Christ, 1520-21
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In this Protestant propaganda woodcut satirizing the mercantile, "whorish" Catholic church, the pope sells religious offices, and indulgences (time off from Purgatory) while the true Christ drives money changers from the temple.
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