‘Only the strangest and most horrible cases’: The Role of Judicial Violence in the Work of Jan Luyken

In 1685, Dutch Calvinist publishers brought to the market a new edition of the Anabaptist martyrology Het bloedig tooneel. Marketed mainly towards wealthy Dutch Anabaptists, the book included 104 high-quality etchings made by the Amsterdam artist Jan Luyken. Famous for their explicit depiction of ex...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Michel van Duijnen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Journals 2018-12-01
Series:Early Modern Low Countries
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Online Access:http://www.emlc-journal.org/articles/10.18352/emlc.73/