Jiří Anderle / Jiri Anderle Bestia triumphans II lept, měkký kryt / etching, vernis mou 1984, opus 271, 65 x 95,5 cm 34.000,- Kč / CZK The title refers to the “sixteenth-century Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno, who was tried by two Inquisitions and burned at the stake in Rome in 1600. Bruno's most representative work, Spaccio de la bestia trionfante (The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast), published in an atmosphere of secrecy in 1584 and never referred to as anything but blasphemous for more than a century, was singled out by the church tribunal at the summation of his final trial. That is hardly surprising because the book is a daring indictment of the corruption of the social and religious institutions of his day. The "triumphant beast" signifies the reign of multifarious vices.” Citation: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/796255.The_Expulsion_of_the_Triumphant