File:Alfons luder kunde.gif
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artist QS:P170,Q43461 ,
artist QS:P170,Q73088 or
artist QS:P170,Q164696 |
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English: A 16th-century (ca. 1540) German satirical print whose general theme is the uselessness of chastity belts in ensuring the faithfulness of beautiful young wives married to old ugly husbands. The young wife is dipping into the bag of money which her old husband is offering to give her (to encourage her to remain placidly in the chastity belt he has locked on her), but she intends to use it to buy her freedom to enjoy her handsome lover (who is bringing her a key).
For another closely-related 16th century woodcut (with different artwork, and the poem spelled according to a different German dialect, but basically the same idea), see Image:16thc-German-woodcut-Chastity-belt.jpg . Here's the transcript of the text in the woodcut which is provided in Eric John Dingwall's 1931 book The Girdle of Chastity):
Here's an attempted rendering of this text into modern German:
Dingwall translates what the wife says as: "No lock is of avail against the cunning of women; there can be no fidelity where love is not present: for that reason will I buy with your money the key I lack". This print has been attributed to Peter Flötner and Hans Baldung, but Dingwall prefers to attribute it to H. Vogtherr (however, it is not entirely clear to me whether Dingwall is referring to this version, or to the alternative version Image:16thc-German-woodcut-Chastity-belt.jpg ). For a completely different Renaissance chastity-belt caricature (though expressing the same basic sentiments), see File:Chastity belt satire.jpg. Note that historically the use of chastity belts was a Renaissance phenomenon, not actually medieval...Français : Ceinture de chasteté : caricature allemande de la Renaissance avec un mari vieilli riche, une jeune épouse ceinturée rétive, et un bel amant. |
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circa 1540 date QS:P571,+1540-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 |
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Place of creation | Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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English: From Karikatur-album, C. E. Jensen, MDCCCCVI. |
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