Danse Macabre 1493
by Photo Researchers
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Danse Macabre 1493
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Photo Researchers
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Photograph - Photograph
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Woodcut by Michael Wolgemut published in the 'Liber chronicarum' (Book of Chronicles, Nuremburg, 1493) by the German physician Hartmann Schedel. Visual motif Skeletons are rising from the dead for the dance of death. Dance of Death, also called Danse Macabre (French), Danza Macabra (Italian), Dansul Mortii (Romanian), Danza de la Muerte (Spanish), Dansa de la Mort (Catalan), Danca Macabra (Portuguese language), Totentanz (German), Dodendans (Dutch), Surmatants (Estonian), is an artistic genre of late medieval allegory on the universality of death no matter one's station in life, the Dance of Death unites all.
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June 16th, 2014
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