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Also known as dance of death

artistic motif on the universality of death

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Author
Hans Holbein the Younger
Original title
Danse Macabre
Genre
Allegory , satire, woodcuts and death
Publication place
England

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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.

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