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Folie et déraison à la Renaissance : colloque international tenu en novembre 1973 sous les auspices de la Fédération internationale des instituts et sociétés pour l'étude de la Renaissance.
Date: [1976], ©1976
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A drunken Bacchus cavorts atop the globe, accompanied by Fortune; to his right physicians and quacks fight for legitimacy; to his left the scales held by a blindfold Justice are tipped by a lawyer's money: an allegory of the world of justice and health overturned into one of chance and greed. Coloured etching by Daniël Veelwaard I after J. Smies, 1809.
Smies, Jacob, 1764-1833.Date: 1809Reference: 17675i- Pictures
A chariot driven by Folly and pulled by speculative trading companies displays a figure of Fortune corrupting honest trade. Etching by B. Picart, ca. 1720.
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733.Date: [1720?]Reference: 812283iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.
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A man foolishly trying to treat his own illnesses by imitating a physician. Colour lithograph by C. E.(?), 1931.
E. C.Date: 1931Reference: 537097i- Books
Encomium moriae, sive declamatio, in laudem stulticiae / [Desiderius Erasmus].
Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536.Date: 1622
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oge de la folie d'asme / traduit par Victor Develay et accompagndes dessins de Hans Holbein.
Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536.Date: 1876
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A credulous congregation listening to a sermon by a fiery preacher. Engraving by T. Cook, 1798, after W. Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: 1 October 1798Reference: 12090i- Pictures
An aged winged figure of Time with his scythe stands before a table on which stands a two-headed clerical figure. Engraving.
Date: [1763?]Reference: 579100i- Pictures
A family stand before a seated man handling money at a table; on the left a pleading man hoisted on a rope from a building as 3 men negotiate below him in a yard.
Weiditz, Hans, approximately 1495-approximately 1536Date: [1531]Reference: 3334563i