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upright=1.4|thumb|Danse Macabre|Totentanz ("Dance of the Dead"), illustration from the [[Nuremberg Chronicle, by Hartmann Schedel (1440–1514)]] thumb|A death head wearing the Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire, on the sarcophagus of Habsburg emperor Charles VI in the [[crypt of the Capuchin]] thumb|Upper section of the Cadaver Tomb of René of Chalon|Transi of René de Chalon. Sculpture by [[Ligier Richier, ]]

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upright=1.4|thumb|Danse Macabre|Totentanz ("Dance of the Dead"), illustration from the [[Nuremberg Chronicle, by Hartmann Schedel (1440–1514)]] thumb|A death head wearing the Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire, on the sarcophagus of Habsburg emperor Charles VI in the [[crypt of the Capuchin]] thumb|Upper section of the Cadaver Tomb of René of Chalon|Transi of René de Chalon. Sculpture by [[Ligier Richier, ]]

In art, the term macabre ( or ; ) means "having the quality of having a grim or ghastly atmosphere".

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