Allegory of the Prodigal Son

A dense sixteenth-century woodcut crowded with labeled allegorical figures; a robed woman stands at center while a man in a doublet looks on at right. In the foreground, a bent figure reaches toward a trough beside a large pig, with a round colonnaded temple at upper left.

Artist

Cornelis Anthonisz.

Date

1535-1545

Medium

Source

Rijksmuseum

Size

3115 × 4000 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam