Keywords
emblems
images of Death
motif o f danse macabre
How to Cite
Abstract
The article looks at a newly discovered set of poetic inscriptions handwritten on the pages of Georgius Aemilius’ and Hans Holbein’s emblematic work leones Mortis... published in Lyon in 1547. The original print is deposited at the Diocesan Library in Sandomierz. The thirty-two ‘extras’ in Polish were in all probability added in the second half of the eighteenth century by, as the author of the article assumes, Tomasz Aleksander Małyszka. The texts constitute a missing link between old Polish realizations of the danse macabre motif and Daniel Chodowiecki’s cycle composed during the period of Polish Enlightenment. The article analyses the image of death and its grotesque elements that were so characteristic of the late Baroque. The discovered set of poetic inscriptions confirms that emblems were quite popular in the second half of the eighteenth century; what is more, it is the only example in old Polish literature of a creative dialogue with Aemilius Holbein’s Renaissance work.
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