Deana Farrell

tonguedepressors:

La “Mort Saint-Innocent”

vers 1530
Provenant du cimetière des Innocents à Paris
Albâtre
H. : 1,20 m. ; L. : 0,55 m. ; Pr. : 0,27 m.

L’image décharnée de la Mort se dressait au centre du cimetière des Innocents. Sur son bouclier, un quatrain rappelle :
”Il n’est vivant tant soit plein d’art
Ne de force pour resistance
Que je ne frappe de mon dard
Pour bailler aux vers leur pitance
Priez Dieu pour les trepasses.”
À la suppression du cimetière, en 1786, le squelette a été porté à Saint-Gervais, puis à Notre-Dame, où le bras a été refait par le sculpteur Deseine, ensuite au musée des Monuments français.

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talisman:

A brooch made from the talon of a falcon in the 1860s in Scotland

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mediumaevum:

During the Middle ages, and even in the Renaissance and until the 18th century, eyelashes were not styled. Women, in general, removed eyelashes and eyebrows in order to give more importance to the forehead, which was the most important feature in females’ faces at that time.

Women were not supposed to exhibit their hair in public, and by several ecclesiastical edicts, the Catholic Church condemned that practice as an offense to God and the church, and a sin. It obviously included eyebrows and eyelashes.

image: Petrus Christus, Portrait of a Young Woman (detail), Netherlandish, c. 1470

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Incredulity of St. Thomas, Caravaggio, detail 

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X1764-0000 (by Max Capacity +)

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