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Artist
- Name:
- Cousin, Jean
- Dates:
- ca. 1522-ca. 1594
- Country:
- France
Illustration
- Subject:
- Ornaments & patterns
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- The Getty Research Institute, The Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- The book of fortune
- Author(s):
- Anlezy, Imbert d', Lalanne, Ludovic
- Publisher:
- London, Paris: Librairie de l'Art, 1883
- Open Library:
- View record
Description
Fortune and Death are facing each other in an open landscape, each holding a banner. Death has laid his hand on Fortune’s wheel as her left foot rests on a sphere. The main motif is set inside a decorative foliage wreath. The allegory is explained as follows by the author:
And the end of men, and of Fortune, and of all things comes. […] The sky and the earth shall pass away: After death we shall take nothing away but honor, and renown, and victory…
Keywords: 16th century, 1880s, 19th century, allegory, black & white, border, death
