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This book highlights the importance of secular and profane prints for the reconstruction and understanding of themes popular in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance and examines their function as patterns for the other arts and as sources for moral teaching and entertainment As successors to the marginal illuminations of medieval manuscripts these prints represent the low arts and as such have licence for subversion and comedy They are lower both in medium and subject matter than paintings concentrating on foolish and sinful behaviour on worldupsidedown situations and on base human passions all to be discussed as a mirror of human folly and depravity Indeed some images cross the barriers of decency resulting in scatological and grotesque representations The medieval Church was much exercised by the sin of lust and women since the Fall were seen as temptresses incarnate represented on prints as subjugating men deceiving them and generally making fools of them Peasants equally lecherous but stupid are depicted carousing at Peasant Festivals rather than working Other popular themes are of Wild People who live in harmony with nature and protect the procreation of human families and outcasts such as beggars cripples and quacks Prints also illustrate the historical concerns of the period such as the Peasants War in Germany and the wars in Italy represented by images of vain soldiers and death Overall the picture gained from secular and profane prints is one of humanity abandoning itself to the sins of the flesh and therefore folly real life is in details only to serve in the interest of a satirical yet convincing illustration of the world often with a didactic aim
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This book highlights the importance of secular and profane prints for the reconstruction and understanding of themes popular in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance and examines their function as patterns for the other arts and as sources for moral teaching and entertainment As successors to the marginal illuminations of medieval manuscripts these prints represent the low arts and as such have licence for subversion and comedy They are lower both in medium and subject matter than paintings concentrating on foolish and sinful behaviour on worldupsidedown situations and on base human passions all to be discussed as a mirror of human folly and depravity Indeed some images cross the barriers of decency resulting in scatological and grotesque representations The medieval Church was much exercised by the sin of lust and women since the Fall were seen as temptresses incarnate represented on prints as subjugating men deceiving them and generally making fools of them Peasants equally lecherous but stupid are depicted carousing at Peasant Festivals rather than working Other popular themes are of Wild People who live in harmony with nature and protect the procreation of human families and outcasts such as beggars cripples and quacks Prints also illustrate the historical concerns of the period such as the Peasants War in Germany and the wars in Italy represented by images of vain soldiers and death Overall the picture gained from secular and profane prints is one of humanity abandoning itself to the sins of the flesh and therefore folly real life is in details only to serve in the interest of a satirical yet convincing illustration of the world often with a didactic aim
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Sculpture Arts et photographie Livres Histoire de lart Histoire et critique de lart Histoire de lart par thème et concept Art de limpression Conception graphique
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