Mensheid wordt door de duivel geketend 1550

This 16th-century engraving by Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert, titled *Mensheid wordt door de duivel geketend* (Man is Chained by the Devil), depicts a powerful allegory of human enslavement. A naked man stands bound by chains to a monstrous, winged devil, symbolizing the power of sin and temptation. The man's desperate posture and the devil's menacing gaze amplify the drama of the scene. This piece, now housed at the Rijksmuseum, provides insight into the artistic and theological concerns of the Dutch Renaissance.