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Die menschliche Sterblichkeit unter dem Titel Todten-Tanz, in LXI. Original-Kupfern

Meyer, Conrad, 1618-1689, Meyer, Rudolf Theodor, 1605-1638, Meyer, Conrad, 1618-1689. Sterbensspiegel, Müller, Johann Georg, d. 1672 · 1759 · Hamburg und Leipzig : [s.n.] · 92 pictures

A 1759 German edition published in Hamburg and Leipzig, gathering sixty-one original copper engravings of the Dance of Death, after designs by Conrad Meyer and Rudolf Theodor Meyer, for a general readership interested in mortality and moral emblems. The pictures show Death, a skeletal figure, seizing people from every rank in indoor and outdoor scenes; a designer might take their dense crosshatching, theatrical staging, and the contrast between skeleton and richly dressed living figures as models for memento mori imagery.

Dance of death · Death in art

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