Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 611
ued mirrors reflect the image of a human skull. The crosses bear the Latininscription, Memento mori. attached to the latter, which still represented life; whereas the body, repre-senting death, was already, so to speak, separated from the honours of royalty.The funeral procession proceeded in the… … Fig. 401.—Triumphal Vessel, which was drawn upon a car in the solemn funeral ceremony cele-hrated at Brussels, upon the 29th of December, 1558, in honour of the Emperor Charles V.,who died on the 21st of September, in the same year, at the Monastery of St. Just.—This vesselgives some idea of the…
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