#erhard schon

[victoriantomodern]

Erhard Schön (c. 1491–1542), hand-coloured woodcut depicting the Devil playing a monk's head like bagpipes, c. 1530, British Museum.

This is one of the most striking images to be seen among the vast number of broadsheets directed by the reformers against the Roman Catholic church. The image of the Devil perched on the shoulders of a monk, through whose ears and nose he "plays his tune", is made particularly pungent by the more usual association of bagpipes with lust. The idea that monks were the instruments of the Devil was common and resulted in numerous woodcuts showing them as thinly disguised monsters.

[pandaemoniumpancakes]

Erhard Schön, A Turkish Procession, 1532, pen and brown ink, 23.7 x 37 cm, The J. Paul Getty Museum. 

[conformi]

Superstudio, Un viaggio da A a B, 1969 vs Erhard Schön, Unterweisung der Proportion und Stellung der Possen, Nürnberg, 1538

[eliron]

Erhard Schon, 1538

[muirgilsdream]

Musician. Erhard Schon.