The Dance of Death

IV. - The Consequences of the Fall

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THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE FALL.
THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE FALL.

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Maledicta terra in opere tuo, in laboribus comedes cunctis diebus vitæ tuæ, donec reuertaris, &c.

Genesis iii.

Mauldicte en ton labeur la terre.

En labeur ta uie useras,

Iusques que la Mort te soubterre.

Toy pouldre en pouldre tourneras.

Adam, aided by Death, tills the earth. Eve, with a distaff, suckles Cain in the background.

For the unhappy man death is the commutation of a sentence of life imprisonment. -- Alexander Chase

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The Dance of Death

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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