Les simulachres & historiees faces de la mort, autant elegamme[n]t pourtraictes, que artificiellement imaginées

Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543, Vauzelles, Jean de, d. ca. 1559, Corrozet, Gilles, 1510-1568, Trechsel, Melchior, fl. 1529-1549, printer, Trechsel, Gaspard, fl. 1529-1549, printer · 1538 · A Lyon : Soubz l'escu de Coloigne · 52 pictures

This is a 1538 French edition printed in Lyon by Melchior Trechsel under the sign of Cologne, with woodcuts by Hans Holbein and verses by Gilles Corrozet and Jean de Vauzelles, aimed at readers of religious and moral emblem books. The woodcuts show death as a skeleton confronting figures from every rank, including a crowned queen, a bishop, a king on his throne, and a kneeling beggar beside an hourglass. A designer might take from them the compact narrative vignette, with clear figure groupings, strong contour lines and simple architectural backdrops.

Dance of death · Memento mori · Death in art · Death

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