The Dance of Death

XV. - The Abbess

THE ABBESS.

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Laudaui magis mortuos quàm viuentes.

Eccle. iiii.

I'ay tousiours les mortz plus loué

Que les uisz, esquelz mal abonde,

Toucesfoys la Mort ma noué

Au ranc de ceulx qui sont au monde.

Death, in a wreath of flags, pulls away the Abbess by her scapulary in sight of a shrieking nun.

Horror at the sight of death turns into satisfaction that it is someone else who is dead. -- Elias Canetti

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This is a collection of images taken from Holbein's Dance of Death. This book is illustrated with 49 beautiful woodcut engravings, each a miniature masterpiece depicting various manifestations of death. View more: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [14] [16] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] [47] [48] [49]

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