This broadsheet by the Catholic polemicist Johannes Cochlaeus (from his work Sieben Kopffe Martin Luthers [Seven Heads of Martin Luther ]) uses the direct language of the Reformers’ propaganda images. But here, their pictorial vocabulary is used to denigrate Luther and his followers, who were considered to be threats to the unity of the Empire and to the Church. Luther is represented as the seven-headed beast of the Apocalypse with bees buzzing around one of its heads.
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