Trionfo e danza della morte; o, Danza macabra a Clusone; Dogma della morte a Pisogne nella provincia di Bergamo
An 1859 Milan study of the Dance of Death, the medieval theme of skeletons summoning the living, compiled by Giuseppe Vallardi from frescoes at Clusone and Pisogne in Bergamo and from Dürer's engravings. The plates are line drawings: one shows a churchman and courtiers beside a skeleton, another a skeleton facing a piper, and a third a skeleton trailing a crowd of small dancing bodies. A designer could take the simple contour line and the skeleton-and-living-figure pairing, which read clearly at small sizes.
