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- Title
The Dance of Death.
- Authors
ROTHSCHILD, Judith Rice
- Abstract
The article focuses on the manifestation of the Dance of Death motif in various forms like literary, visual, and dance in numerous countries in western Europe after the Renaissance period. It associates the Dance of Death motif with the allegorical poem "Vado Mori" in the 13th century, which stresses death's equalizing and victorious force over the living. It says that the Dance of Death's first visual appearance was in the series of frescoes at the Cemetery of the Holy Innocents in Paris in the middle of 15th century. It adds that the images of the Paris Dance of Death was taken from the book of 17 woodcuts with the poem beneath them, brought by printer Guyot Marchant in Paris in 1485. Moreover, the Dance of Death was irrefutably visible in other countries in the 19th and 20th century.
- Subjects
PARIS (France); FRANCE; WESTERN Europe; DANCE of death; DANCE of death in art; DANCE of death in literature; ALLEGORY; MEDIEVAL painting; 15TH century woodcutting; MARCHANT, Guyot
- Publication
Medieval Perspectives, 2007, Vol 22, p108
- ISSN
1057-5367
- Publication type
Article