Excerpt from The Dance of Death: In a Series of Engravings on Wood From Designs Attributed to Hans Holbein With a Treatise on the Subject 'the most favourite subject of the kind however, was what is usually denominated the 'dance of Death, or a representation of Death in the act of leadingall ranks and conditions of men to the grave; with gesticulations not a little bordering upon the grotesque, though probably. Without any view to provoke the mirth of the spectator in those times. One of the most ancient still existing, ...
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Excerpt from The Dance of Death: In a Series of Engravings on Wood From Designs Attributed to Hans Holbein With a Treatise on the Subject 'the most favourite subject of the kind however, was what is usually denominated the 'dance of Death, or a representation of Death in the act of leadingall ranks and conditions of men to the grave; with gesticulations not a little bordering upon the grotesque, though probably. Without any view to provoke the mirth of the spectator in those times. One of the most ancient still existing, is\ that at Basil in Switzerland, in the church-yard formerly belonging. To the Convent of Dominicans, which is said. To have been painted at the instance of the fathers and prelates'assisting at the grand council at Basil, in 1431, in memory of a plague which happened: soon afterwards, and during its. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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