Sebastian Brant: the key to understanding Luca Penni's 'Justice and the Seven Deadly Sins.'

From: The Art Bulletin | Date: June 1, 1996| Author: Wilson-Chevalier, Kathleen | Copyright information

This essay presents a detailed study of eight well-known School of Fontainebleau prints, Justice and the Seven Deadly Sins, etched by Leon Davent after the Franco-Italian artist Luca Penni. Some of Penni's borrowings from earlier graphic works are analyzed, in particular Sebastian Brant's Ship of Fools, a key source of inspiration. The prints are situated in the religious, social, and economic context of mid-sixteenth-century France, and the gender and ideological content of what may well be ...

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