Les Accidens de l'Homme, Authority

Authority

Authority
Homme mondain regarde et voy · en ton cueur ceste pourtraicture · mourir conuient vela la loy que dieu a baille a nature ·
Worldly man, look and behold in your heart this portrait! Die you must – that’s the law God has entrusted to nature.

Hardouyn: Prophet

Godard: Prophet

The authority / author finishes the dance, like he does in La Danse Macabre and many other dances of death.

The authority does not appear in "Loups Ravissans" and "Vie de l'Homme", but Hardouyn and Guillaume Godard both have two male and two female prophets / sibyls, who are used extensively in the margins, for instance to comment on the Destruction of Jerusalem. One can be seen to the left.

Godard has copied Hardouyn's four prophets for his books of hours, and on one occasion he has given one of the prophets the same text as the authority in "Les Accidens": »Homme mondain regarde […]«.