Allegory on the collapse of the Catholic Church; an outdoor scene, at the top clouds with a book inscribed 'Evang.' (Evangelium) falling towards a Catholic church, which is collapsing, amongst the debris the bodies of Catholic clerics, fragments from an altarpiece, a monstrance, cross, and a chest with letter of indulgences, at the top right three devils, in the foreground a group of people including a king and Catholic clerics looking towards the sky; one of forty-eight woodcuts of the incomplete set 'Apocalypse and Satirical Allegories on the Church', without text or title-page, bound in one volume (BM 1911-7-8-103 to 150). 1544-1558
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Print made by:   Matthias Gerung</div>
between 1544 and 1558 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1544-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1558-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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