. The Open court. e arms of Basel. Rev.—Skull on bone, with worm; rose-tree withflower and buds growing over it. Inscrip-tion: HEUT ROOT MORN DODT (To-dayred, to-morrow dead). In exergue, an hour-glass and the engravers signature, F. F. These two pieces belong to the class of so-called Moralische Pfenningestruck at Basel in the seventeenth century. They were apparently designedto be given as presents, sometimes probably in connection with funerals. Themedallist, whose signature on these pieces is F. F., was doubtless FriedrichFechter or one of his family (F. F. standing either for Friedrich Fe
. The Open court. e arms of Basel. Rev.—Skull on bone, with worm; rose-tree withflower and buds growing over it. Inscrip-tion: HEUT ROOT MORN DODT (To-dayred, to-morrow dead). In exergue, an hour-glass and the engravers signature, F. F. These two pieces belong to the class of so-called Moralische Pfenningestruck at Basel in the seventeenth century. They were apparently designedto be given as presents, sometimes probably in connection with funerals. Themedallist, whose signature on these pieces is F. F., was doubtless FriedrichFechter or one of his family (F. F. standing either for Friedrich Fechter orfor Fechter fecit). In connection with memento niori medalets of thisclass, it must not be forgotten that the devasting epidemics of disease in thesixteenth and seventeenth centuries gave them an increased significance atthe time when they were issued. Finger-ring with an antiqueintaglio, from which apparently Eras-mus derived the idea of his terminusdevice. (After Jortin.) P. 140Aspects of Death in Silver cup formingpart of the so-called Bos-coreale treasure in theLouvre Museum at Paris,supposed to date from thefirst century of the Chris-tian era, Photographfrom the facsimile in theVictoria and AlbertMuseum, showing theskeletons, or shades ofthe philosophers Epicurusand Zeno. P. 8—Aspectsof Death in Art. These cups belongto a period when thephilosoph}^ of Epicuruswas popularly supposed toadvocate devotion to sen-sual pleasures. Some of the skeletonson these cups representthe shades of Greek poetsand philosophers, whose names are inscribed on the silver at their sides, andone of them, accompanied by a pig, is labeled as that of Epicurus (that is to say, his skeleton) has a philosophers wallet (scriptof the New Testament) slung from the left hand, whilst he lays his righthand on what seems to be a large cake on a tripod table. The pig at his feetis likewise endeavoring to get at the cake.
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