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Danse Macabre, Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493

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Title: Danse Macabre, Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493

Caption: Woodcut by Michael Wolgemut published in the 'Liber chronicarum' (CCLXIIII verso Book of Chronicles, Nuremburg, 1493). The Nuremberg Chronicle is an illustrated Biblical paraphrase and world history that follows the story of human history related in the Bible; it includes the histories of a number of important Western cities. Written in Latin by Hartmann Schedel, with a version in German translation by Georg Alt, it appeared in 1493. It is one of the best documented early printed book, an incunabulum, and one of the first to successfully integrate illustrations and text. 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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Image size: 4800 × 3787 px | 52.0 MB

Print size: 40.6 × 32.1 cm | 1889.8 × 1490.9 in (300 dpi)

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