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Preferred term

Dance of Death (series)  

Entry terms

  • DANSE MACABRE (SERIES)
  • IMAGES OF DEATH (SERIES)
  • IMAGINES MORTIS (SERIES)
  • TOTENTANZ (SERIES)

Note

  • Generic artist: Holbein, Hans the younger
  • Generic artist: Lutzelburger, Hans (after Holbein)
  • Generic medium: drawings
  • Generic medium: prints
  • Specific artist: Beck, Jakob Samuel, 1715-1778
  • Specific artist: Götz, Theodor Maximilian Georg, 1779-1853
  • Specific date: 1735-95
  • Specific date: 1843
  • Specific location: Weimar (Thüringen, DEU), Herzogin-Anna-Amalia-Bibliothek
  • Specific medium: paintings
  • Specific note: after Jakob Samuel Beck and others
  • Specific note: Beck and others; destroyed; formerly Erfurt (DEU)//Augustinian abbey, Protestant orphanage

Scope note

  • drawings by Hans Holbein the younger, made into woodcuts by Hans Lutzelburger, publ. in 1538 as SIMULACHRES & HISTORIEES FACES DE LA MORT (=Images & illustrated facets of death). BECK: did 38 out of 56 paintings on the theme, starting in 1736; other artists did the rest; last painting 1795; Gotz copied them in 1843

Notation

  • 258499
  • 260591
  • 260673

In other languages

  • French

  • DANSE DES MORTS (SERIE)
  • IMAGES DE LA MORT (SERIE)
  • IMAGINES MORTIS (SERIE)
  • SIMULACHRES & HISTORIEES FACES DE LA MORT (SERIE)
  • SIMULCHRES DE LA MORT (SERIE)
  • SIMULCRES DE LA MORT (SERIE)

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/HTR-T236WFH2-6

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