Christian iconography; or, The history of Christian art in the middle ages (1851)
Didron, Adolphe Napoléon, 1806-1867, Millington, Ellen J, Stokes, Margaret, 1832-1900 · London : H. G. Bohn · leaf 181
death. M. Langlois is of opinion that Death and the Fool wereintroduced as agents into all the dramatic representations of France, Italy, and Eng-land, acting as mutes, andof whose performance thatof the modern harlequin isan imperfect reproduction.*In the mortuary chapel inthe Augustinian church… … Fig. 209. * Death and the Fool appear in Holbeins Imagines, Cologne, 1566. t See H. Green, Emblems, p. 472. Didrons illustration is taken from a Danse Macabre of the fifteenth century. The oldest edition of the Danse]\lacabre cited by bibliographers is that of Paris, 1484 ; but more than acentury…
Christian art and symbolism · Art, Medieval
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