Aspects of death in art and epigram : illustrated especially by medals, engraved gems, jewels, ivories, antique pottery, &c / [Frederick Parkes Weber].

  • Weber, Frederick Parkes, 1863-1962.
Date:
1914
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Credit: Aspects of death in art and epigram : illustrated especially by medals, engraved gems, jewels, ivories, antique pottery, &c / [Frederick Parkes Weber]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. PREFACE Part I. INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL ACCOUNT A. Philosophical Ideas amongst the Ancients—Con- solation—“ Epicureanism ” B. Orthodox Religious Teaching op Mediaeval Europe. The Morality Tales and Morality Plays. The Legend of the Three Living and the Three Dead. The Vado Mori Poems. The Dance op Death (Danse Macabre). The Ars Moriendi Designs C. Sepulchral Monuments and Sepulchral Inscriptions op Admonitory Character. The Gisant Type op Monuments op the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. The Horror-inspiring Aspect op Memento Mori Religious Art D. Italian- Renaissance Ideas, and Later. Influence op Petrarch’s Trio nit. The “ Triumph of Death ” Designs E. Modern Art relating to Death. Comparison of Modern and Mediaeval Ideas Part II. ANALYSIS AND ARRANGEMENT I. The Simple Memento Mori Idea II. Death as the Threshold op a Future Existence. Death from the Standpoint op Religious Faith. Metempsychosis III. Survival after Death in the Minds op Others. PAGE vii 1 3 28 56 69 84 100 101 105