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 568
fully for fifteen or twenty years by the work-men employed in his printing-house, who were not initiated into themysteries of the new art till they had served a certain time of probation andapprenticeship : a terrible oath bound together those whom the master hadconsidered worthy of entering into… … Fg- 393-—Fac-simile of the fifth Page of the first Xylographie Edition ot the Ars Moriendi, representingthe Sinner on his Death-bed surrounded by his Family. Two Demons are whispering into his ear, Think of thy treasure, and Distribute it to thy friends. But while the secret was so scrupulously…
Art, Medieval · Art, Renaissance
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