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 183
MS. Danse Macabre of the fifteenth century. In Stowes Surveyof London, 1618, is a contest between Death and the Fool copied intoKnights Shak€--peare, vol. viii. p. 303. The fpol was a kind of satiric figureunder whose garb all humanity was occasionally figured. An instance ofthis may be seen in the… … 172 CHRISTIAN ICONOGRAPHY. and fortune in the Eternal City* like those described byJuvenal in the early part of his third satire.f Two similar representations of Death on onyx gems areengraved in Mr. Kings edition of Horace illustrated fromancient gems, pp. 20 and 253. Cupid, hovering above,throws…
Christian art and symbolism · Art, Medieval
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