![](http://www.artandpopularculture.com/images/Gheerhaets_Allegory_iconoclasm.jpg)
The image breakers, c.1566 –1568 by Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder.
Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder (c.1520–c.1590) was a Flemish artist associated with the English court of the mid-16th Century and mainly remembered as the illustrator of the 1567 edition of Aesop’s Fables, De warachtighe fabulen der dieren[1]. Gheeraerts’ style resembles that of Pieter Bruegel the Elder. In his own day, Gheeraerts was particularly famous as a draughtsman of birds and animals.
I love this picture of the iconoclasts at work!
Sort of Salgado meets Arcimbaldo.
Henry Holiday, who did the illustrations to Lewis Carroll’s “The Hunting of the Snark” (published in 1876) seemingly liked Gheeraerts “Head” too:
Best regards from Munich
Goetz
Henry Holiday, who did the illustrations to Lewis Carroll’s “The Hunting of the Snark” (published in 1876) seemingly liked Gheeraerts “Head” too:
http://www.snrk.de/HolidayGheeraerts.jpg
http://www.snrk.de/BankersFate.png
http://www.snrk.de/HolidayGheeraertsFiltered.jpg
http://snrk.de/BonnetHeads.jpg
Best regards from Munich
Goetz
update: http://holiday.snrk.de/Snark.cgi