Holbeins Totentanz und seine Vorbilder
Holbeins Totentanz und seine Vorbilder is a German scholarly study by Alexander Goette, published in Strassburg by Karl J. Trübner in 1897, comparing Hans Holbein's Dance of Death woodcuts with their medieval precedents for art historians. The pictures show Death as a skeleton leading or grasping living figures such as a merchant, a noblewoman and a knight, drawn in clean outline; a designer might take from them the stark skeletal figure and the pairing of Death with a single worldly partner.
