The Dance of Death ed. trilingva / Hans Holbein the Younger

Title

• The Dance of Death / by Hans Holbein the Younger. A complete facsim. of the original 1538 ed. of Les simulachres & historiees faces de la mort. With a new introd. by Werner L. Gundersheimer.

Uniform Title

• Totentanz

Also Titled

• Dance of Death
• Simulachres et historiees faces de la mort.

Author

• Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543

Other Authors

• Lützelburger, Hans, 1495?-1526.
• Vauzelles, Jean de.
• Corrozet, Gilles, 1510-1568.

Edition

• [1st ed. reprinted] / with a new introduction by Werner L. Gundersheimer.

Published

• New York : Dover Publications, [c1971]

Content Types

• text

Carrier Types

• volume

Physical Description

• xiv, 146 p. : illus. ; 22 cm.

Series

• Rosenwald Collection reprint series
• Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress). Reprint series

Subjects

• Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543 -- Individual works -- Totentanz.
• Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543 -- Graphics.
• Wood-engraving -- 16th century -- Europe.
• Dance of death.
• Wood-engraving -- 16th century.
• French poetry.
• Memento mori.
• German woodcuts Holbein, Hans, b.1497 Reproductions

Summary

• Here are 41 woodcuts on Memento mori theme; most celebrated of Holbein's works.

Notes

• The woodcuts are supposed to have been executed from Hans Holbein's designs by Hans Lützelburger. The French text has been ascribed to Jean de Vauzelles or to Gilles Corrozet. Cf. Harvard Univ. Library, Dept. of Graphic Arts. Catalogue of books and manuscripts, pt. 1, v. 1, 1964.
• Dover ed. includes English translations of the biblical quotations and French quatrains.
• Includes bibliographical references.
• Text in French, Latin, and English.

Language

• English
• French
• Latin