Icones mortis : sexaginta imaginibus, totidemq[ue]

Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543, Vogel, Johann, 17th/18th cent, Aemilius, Georgius, 1517-1569, Scheidt, Caspar, d. 1565, Harsdörffer, Georg Philipp, 1607-1658 · 1648 · [Nürnberg] : Bey Paulus Fürsten Kunsthändlern zu finden · 76 pictures

Icones mortis is a 1648 Latin and German book of death emblems published in Nuremberg, after Hans Holbein's designs, with verses by Georgius Aemilius and Caspar Scheidt for a general readership. The framed woodcut scenes show Death confronting people from every rank and walk of life, each with a short rhyming verse beneath, and a designer might take their dense crosshatched shading, tight border ornaments and compact figure groupings as a model for dramatic, narrative engraving.

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