The ‘double image’ is an image that represents two different things at the same time as the pictures of ‘anthropomorphic landscapes’ where the head of a man is also a landscape at the same time.
Tobias' Journey is one of Momper’s weirdest landscapes in spite of that it doesn't look that way at first glance. The painting shows the angel Raphael who advise Tobias to catch the fish and take it to the house of his uncle Raguel to married his daughter Sara and to 'heal' her with the smell of grilled fish’s liver… The motif was popular subject in renaissance art but Momper's interpretation was unusual, especially if you treat the painting as an 'anthropomorphic landscape'. Then you could see another layer of the story with complementary erotic meaning. But, as Durer said: An interpretation depends on a beholder.
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