History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art  

grotesque - Spirit of caricature in Egypt - Monsters: Python and Gorgon

- Greece - The Dionysiac ceremonies, and origins of the drama - The old

comedy - Love of parody - Parodies on subjects taken from Grecian

mythology: The visit to the lover; Apollo at Delphi - The partiality of

parody continued among the Romans: The flight of the Aeneas

Rome - Uses of the mask among the Romans - Scenes from the Roman comedy

- The Sannio and Mimus - The Roman drama - The Roman satirists

-Caricature - Animals introduced in the characters of men -  The

Pigmies, and their introduction into caricature; The farm-yard; The

painter's studio; The procession - Political caricature in Pompeii; The

graffiti

from antiquity to the Middle Ages - The Roman Mimi continued to exist -

The Teutonic after-dinner entertainments - Clerical satires: Archbishop

Heriger and the dreamer; The supper of the Saints - Tansition from

ancient to medieval art - Taste for monstrous animals, dragons, etc.;

Church of San Fedele, at Como - Spirit of caricature and love of

grotesque among the Anglo-Saxons - Grotesque figures of demons -

Natural tendency of the early medieval arists to draw in caricature -

Examples from early manuscripts and sculptures

literature - Medieval love of the ludicrous - Causes which made it

influence the notions of demons - Stories of the pious painter and the

erring monk - Darkness and ugliness caricatured - The demons in the

miracle plays - The demons of Notre Dame

medieval satire - Popularity of fables; Odo de Cirington - Reynard the

fox - Burnellus and Fauvel - The Charivari - Le monde bestorne -

Encaustic tiles - Shoeing the goose, and feeding pigs with roses -

Satirical signs; The mustard maker

and caricature - Tournaments and single combats - Monstrous

combinations of animal forms - Caricatures on costume - The hat - Te

helmet - Ladies' head-dresses - The gown, and its long sleeves

character of the Mimus after the fall of the empire - The minstrel and

the jogelour - History of popular stories -The fabliaux - Account of them - The contes devots

life - State of domestic life in the middle ages - Examples of domestic

ccaricature from the carving sof the misereres - Kitchen scenes -

Domestic brawls - The fight for the breeches - The judicial duel

between man and wife among the germans - Allusions to witchcraft -

Satires on the trades: The baker, the miller, the wine-pedlar and the

tavern-keeper, the ale-wife, etc.

figures - Prevalence of the taste for ugy and grotesque faces - Some of

the popular forms derived from antiquity: The otngue lolling out, and

the distorted mouth - Horrible subjects: The man and the serpents -

Allegorical figures: Gluttony and luxury - Other representations of

clerical gluttony and drunkenness - Grotesque figures of individuals,

and grotesque groups - ornament sof the borders of books -

Unintentional caricature; the mote and the beam

the middle ages - John de Hauteville and Alan de Lille - Golias and the

Goliards - The Golliardic poetry - Taste for parody - Parodies on

religious subjects - Political caricature in the middle ages - The Jews

of Norwich - Caricature representations of countries - Local Satire -

Political songs and poems

burlesque and caricature - Character of the minstrels - Their jokes

upon themselves and upon one another - Various musical instruments

represented in the sculptures of the medieval artists - Sir Matthew

Gournay and the ring of Portugal - Discredit of the tabor and bagpipes

- Mermaids

Normans and their gabs - Early history of court fools - Their costume -

Carvings in the Cornish churches -The burlesque societies of the middle

ages - The feasts of asses, and of fools - Theor license - The leaden

money of the fools - The bishop's blessing

paintings in the chuch of La Chaise Dieu - The reign of folly -

Sebastian Brandt; The ship of fools - Disturbers of Church service -

Troublesome beggars - Geilor's sermons - Radius, and his ship of

foolish women - The pleasures of smell - Erasmus; the praise of folly