Hans Holbein

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Der "Totentanz" des Hans Holbein aus dem 16. Jahrhundert ist der wohl bekannteste im deutschen Sprachraum. Mit den eindringlichen Holzschnitten sollte den Menschen vor Augen gef hrt werden, da ein jeder dem Tod begegnen wird. Sie sollen dazu anhalten, in sich zu kehren, und ein vor Gott rechtschaffenes Leben zu f hren, da niemand wei , wann die letzte Stunde kommt.

Reproduction of the original: The Dance of Death by Hans Holbein

Reproduction of the original: The Dance of Death by Hans Holbein

The Dance of Death: Danse Macabre by Hans Holbein. The Danse Macabre, also called the Dance of Death, is an artistic genre of allegory of the Late Middle Ages on the universality of death: no matter one's station in life, the Dance Macabre unites all. The Danse Macabre consists of the dead or a personification of death summoning representatives from all walks of life to dance along to the grave, typically with a pope, emperor, king, child, and laborer. They were produced as mementos mori, to remind people of the fragility of their lives and how vain were the glories of earthly life. Its origins are postulated from illustrated sermon texts; the earliest recorded visual scheme was a now-lost mural at Holy Innocents' Cemetery in Paris dating from 1424 to 1425.

Hans Holbein's Celebrated Dance of Death - Illustrated by a Series of Photo-Lithographic Facsimiles from the Copy of the First Edition Now in the British Museum. Accompanied by Explanatory Descriptions and a Concise History of the Origin and Subseque is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1868. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

The Dance of Death is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Emblems of Mortality - Representing, in upwards of fifty cuts, Death seizing all ranks and degrees of people is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1789. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

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'The underlying message of the series is, of course, that Death comes for us all, and if it interrupts the recreations of the wealthy rather more insolently than those of the poor, then let that be a lesson to us' Nick Lezard, GuardianA new departure in Penguin Classics: a book containing one of the greatest of all Renaissance woodcut sequences - Holbein's bravura danse macabreOne of Holbein's first great triumphs, The Dance of Death is an incomparable sequence of tiny woodcuts showing the folly of human greed and pride, with each image packed with drama, wit and horror as a skeleton mocks and terrifies everyone from the emperor to a ploughman. Taking full advantage of the new literary culture of the early 16th century, The Dance of Death took an old medieval theme and made it new. This edition of The Dance of Death reproduces a complete set from the British Museum, with many details highlighted and examples of other works in this grisly field. Ulinka Rublack introduces the woodcuts with a remarkable essay on the late medieval danse macabre and the world Holbein lived in.

Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. 'Les Simulachres & Histori es Faces de la Mort avtant elegamtment pourtraictes, que artificiellement imagin es.' This may be Englished as follows: The Images and Storied Aspects of Death, as elegantly delineated as they are] ingeniously imagined. Such is the literal title of the earliest edition of the famous book now familiarly known as 'Holbein's Dance of Death.' It is a small quarto, bearing on its title-page, below the French words above quoted, a nondescript emblem with the legend Vsus me Genuit, and on an open book, Gnothe seauton. Below this comes again, 'A Lyon, Soubz l'escu de Coloigne: M. D. XXXVIII, ' while at the end of the volume is the imprint 'Excvdebant Lvgdvni Melchoir et Gaspar Trechsel fratres: 1538', - the Trechsels being printers of German origin, who had long been established at Lyons. There is a verbose 'Epistre' or Preface in French to the 'moult reuerende Abbesse du religieux conuent S. Pierre de Lyon, Madame Iehanne de Touszele', otherwise the Abbess of Saint Pierre les Nonnains, a religious house containing many noble and wealthy ladies, and the words, 'Salut d'un vray Z le', which conclude the dedicatory heading, are supposed to reveal indirectly the author of the 'Epistre' itself, namely, Jean de Vauzelles, Pastor of St. Romain and Prior of Monrottier, one of three famous literary brothers in the city on the Rhone, whose motto was 'D'un vray Zelle'. After the Preface comes 'Diuerses Tables de Mort, non painctes, mais extraictes de l'escripture saincte, color es par Docteurs Ecclesiastiques, & umbrag es par Philosophes'.

Originally published in 1538 Hans Holbein's Dance of Death is a visual representation of the Dance Macabre morality plays that date back as early as the fourteenth century. The Dance of Death is a Memento Mori, a reminder meant to teach the truth that all men must die and that one should prepare themselves for their final judgment. Presented here are the 49 woodcuts with commentary as originally presented in Bohn's Illustrated Library: Holbein's Dance of Death (1858).