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Key facts
- Author
- Hans Holbein the Younger
- Original title
- Danse Macabre
- Genre
- Allegory , satire, woodcuts and death
- Publication place
- England
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Encyclopedic overview
The Dance of Death (1493) by Michael Wolgemut, from the Nuremberg Chronicle of Hartmann Schedel
The Danse Macabre (/dɑːns məˈkɑːb(rə)/; 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “danse macabre” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.