The dance of death / with an introductory note by A. Dobson.

  • Hans Holbein the Younger
Date:
1892
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The dance of death / with an introductory note by A. Dobson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    insist that the ancients adopted a more ^^^^^'J^^^^^^^^ gorical method for this purpose; that f ^^^P/.^^;^'^^^^^ human mortaUtv by various symbols of destruction, as Ss deruringL serpents, or pecking fmts and flowers by goats browsing on vines; cocks fightmg, oi even by' a Medusa's or Gordon's head The Romans seem to have^dopted Homer's^ definition of ^eaU. as the elde brother of Sleep; and, ^^^^^'^^^g^y' .^^^wtLfd gen^ monumental and other sculptures we ^^^'^^J'^^^^.f^^^ as the representatives of the above personages, ana some s a g'enius bearing a sepulchral vase on his shouldei, Xious'and fppropriate, as well as elegant In a ve^, m- iprpslim seDulchral monument, engraved m p. , ot spon s addS .h~ing S ctiom sepnlchral in- quary has added the w 6 „ heredibvs meis mando scription that was found m Spam H SRE dWg persons, as it wei. breaOung out t^-^^J- ,,,, ,^ We have, however, the authority o introduced the banquets of the EgYPt^ans a person ^^ as who carried round the table ^V^J o ^a coffin^ the figxtre of a dead body, placed o^^^^f 7\,h,t your^- at the same time, ^ehoW t s ima e , selves will be; eat and drmk ^^^^^^^f^J^^^t'^^anusc Montfau9on has referred to ^^^^^^'^ Lacedaemonian prove that this sentimen of Coppa. iroverb,^and it occurs also in thebe^^^^^^^^^^^ .^i^.^^ ascribed to Virgil, m which he is supi 1 Iliad, and after him Virgil, J^g';,, Ficoroni's Gemma: An- ■-• Iliad IX. On an ancien ^^^^ typifies mortality, and tic,ua.> Litteratx, Tab. vm. No i, a human \%.^^^,,,,,^ p. , n. a butterfly immortality. L'l^- •
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