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Explication de la Danse des morts de la Chaise-Dieu, fresque inédite du XVe siècle, précédée de quelques détails sur les autres monumens de ce genre, par Achille Jubinal.

Jubinal, Achille, 1810-1875 · 1841 · Paris, Challamel et cie · 4 pictures

A French antiquarian study by Achille Jubinal, published in Paris by Challamel in 1841, explaining a fifteenth-century mural of the Dance of Death at the Abbey of La Chaise-Dieu and comparing it with similar monuments. The pictures are plain engraved line illustrations: a papal coat of arms with a tiara and crossed keys, a framed portrait medallion between saints with a Latin inscription, a church staircase, and three figures of skeletons and a richly dressed living man walking together. A designer might draw on their clean, hatched outline style and the medieval skeleton motif.

Abbaye de La Chaise-Dieu · Dance of death

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