engraving

Mundus Inversus in a Chained Library

During the years that Leiden University maintained a chained library (1595-1653) the books were placed on the shelves upside-down. Read here why.

Prints, Drawings and Portraits

Dante’s Inferno: the three-headed monster Lucifer

In hell, ruling the gloomy world of the doomed, Lucifer is situated at the centre of the crust of ice where the worst of sinners are being punished. The devil's genitals constitute the exact Centrum Mundi.

Prints, Drawings and Portraits · Exhibitions

The Night by Heinrich Aldegrever

This woman wants to seduce us, the viewers.