[Sca-cooks] A 16th century cook image

Ana Valdes agora158 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 18 15:56:16 PST 2011


It was very common in the Middle Ages to have pictures of skeletons in every situation, as a kind of " memento mori" to remember they were mortal.
Ana

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On 19 feb 2011, at 00:37, wheezul at canby.com wrote:

> It's a moralistic treatise on death, as in Mr. Death has you on his dance
> card no matter who you are.
> 
> The gist of the poem that accompanies this, Death calls the cook fat, and
> I think tells him that he will be the roasted venison for worms.  The cook
> of course is frightened and says he'll give up making food taste good.
> 
> Katherine
> who thinks she'll check her other totentanz images for cooks!
> 
>> Death seems to be ever present in that book. Lots of the illustrations
>> contain skeletons. Might be good for Halloween.
>> 
>> Johnna
>> 
> 
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