The Dance of Death

"The Dance of Death: Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein" by Francis Douce

Death has often been a source of fascination for civilizations around the world. In this book, readers are educated about the personification of this inevitable phenomenon and its evolution through time. Hans Holbein the Younger was a German-Swiss painter and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style, and is considered one of the greatest portraitists. He also was fascinated with death in some of his work, which are studied in detail in this text.