Mateu Targa Agustí from Barcelona perhaps?
I have an idea: what if the upper 2 cartouches are the Protestants words and the lower 2 the Catholic? That would suggest van der Heyden made this...
OK, my next step is to zoom in at the text, maybe that will give us more clous to solve this puzzle. [ATTACH]...
The man next to the pope is a cardinal. He is wearing a so called Galero. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galero [ATTACH]
I just found the 1570 version of the engraving is on the cover of this book: Games and Game Playing in European Art and Literature, 16th-17th...
Ok, so far we have found a lot of information, but for now I think we have raised more questions then we answered them (that is no problem, it...
As we debunked the link between the print and Admiral Francisco de Mendoza the dating of the Curator of the British Museum also becomes uncertain....
Yes I did not want to post too much Dutch links here: Symboliek In de beeldende kunst is het triktrakspel het symbool van de luiheid, een van de...
In this pdf (page 103) triktak (backgammon) is named in combination with this Jan Steen painting:...
According to the dutch Backgammon Wiki article backgammon is the symbol of one of the 7 deadly sins: Sloth...
Here a nice collection of works about Backgammon in the Rijksmuseum:...
Good remark. I believe backgammon was called Tric Trac in old Dutch. it was quite common in older paintings and engravings....
Yes, for our region Antwerpen was the big city in the 16th century instead of the cities in the northern parts. That is one of the reasons I...
Yes, Pieter van der Heyden was from Antwerp.
Maybe in this case Philip II was considered as a heretic because he didn't want to help the pope at first.
Maybe this has a connection: In 1570 the Ottoman forces invaded Cyprus. The Venetian doge asked pope Pius V for help. The pope tried to engage...
The reference to Saint Francis, who celibrated poverty could be a hint to money problems. "He and his followers celebrated and even venerated...
Maybe it's a strange idea, but what if the print has nothing to do with the Catholic/Protestant problems, but are a critique on the internal...
Your comments are a very good addition to this research. I think we have a better understanding of the print now then the description of the...
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