Hartmann Schedel (1440 - 1514)

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Dance of Death

„Folium CCLXIIII“ - „Septima etas mundi“ - „Imago mortis“,

Three dancing skeletons, accompnied by a fouth one who is playing a pipe, below a fith one descending from a grave. One of the most well know depictions of this theme.

Half-page woodcut and text on a full page of the Nuremberg Chronicle, Nuremberg 1493, 46 x 30 cm, Latin edition.

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