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The Dance of Death (1493) by Michael Wolgemut, from the Nuremberg Chronicle of Hartmann Schedel. The Danse Macabre (/ d ɑː n s m ə ˈ k ɑː b (r ə)/; French pronunciation: [dɑ̃s ma.kabʁ]), also called the Dance of Death, is an artistic genre of allegory from the Late Middle Ages on the universality of death.
Michael Wolgemut (formerly spelt Wohlgemuth; 1434 – 30 November 1519) was a German painter and printmaker, who ran a workshop in Nuremberg. He is best known as having taught the young Albrecht Dürer .
Danse Macabre ("The Dance of Death"), Michael Wolgemut 1493, from the Liber chronicarum by Hartmann Schedel The painting seeks to emulate medieval depictions of hellscapes , mainly through dramatic colourisation—in particular through its use of red light—as well as through the depiction of multitudes of layered distorted bodies and limbs ...
The Dance of Death (Totentanz) from Liber Chronicarum [Nuremberg Chronicle], 1493, attr. to Michael Wolgemut. Some of the titles of Liszt’s pieces, such as Totentanz, Funérailles, La lugubre gondola and Pensée des morts, show the composer's fascination with death. In the young Liszt we can already observe manifestations of his obsession ...
The Dance of Death (1493) by Michael Wolgemut. Death Tarot card. 1/9 Insignia. De triomf van de dood, by James Ensor, 1887, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp.
For those who instantly associate Taoist movie priests with the hopping vampires and hungry ghosts of Hong Kong’s goeng-sin horror-comedy heyday of the 1980s (like “Mr. Vampire” and “Kung ...
The Dance of Death is a 1969 film version of the 1900 play The Dance of Death by August Strindberg as presented by the National Theatre Company. [1] [2] It stars Laurence Olivier and Geraldine McEwan. [3] The play was directed by Glen Byam Shaw, and the film version was directed by David Giles.
Animated skeletons in The Dance of Death (1493), a woodcut by Michael Wolgemut, from the Liber chronicarum by Hartmann Schedel.. A skeleton is a type of physically manifested undead often found in fantasy, gothic, and horror fiction, as well as mythology, folklore, and various kinds of art.