The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 282
twocardinals ; but Death is also there, mounted on a grey horse with a rough PLAYING-CARDS. and shaggy coat, and sweeping down with his scythe kings, popes, bishops,and other great men of the earth. If we see Love, represented by threecouples of lovers who embrace as they converse, while two cupids… … Fig. 207.—The Moon. Fig. 208.—Justice. (Cards taken from the Pack, said to be of Charles VI., preserved in the Bibl. Imp., Paris.) rides gallantly along, proudly waving his sword ; a Chariot bears intriumph an officer in full armour ; a Fool places his cap and bells underhis arm that he may count…
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