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The Dance Of Death: Exhibited In Elegant Engravings On Wood, With A Dissertation On The Several Representations Of That Subject But More Particularly On Those Ascribed To Macaber And Hans Holbein

CONTENTS. Chapter I. Personification of Death, and other modes of representing it among the Ancients. — Same subject during the Middle Ages. — Erroneous notions respecting Death. — Monumental absurdities. — Allegorical pageant of the Dance of Death represented in early times by living persons in churches and cemeteries. — Some of these dances described. — Not unknown to the Ancients. — Introduction of the infernal, or dance of Macaber 1 Chapter II. Places where the Dance of Death was sculptured or depicted.— Usually accompanied by verses describing the several characters. — Other metrical compositions on the Dance 17 Chapter III. Macaber not a German or any other poet, but a non-entity. — Corruption and confusion respecting this word. — Etymological errors concerning it. — How connected with the Dance. — Trois mors et trois vifs. — Or^agna's painting in the Campo Santo at Pisa. — Its connection with the trois mors et trois vifs, as well as with the Macaber Dance. — Saint Macarius the real Macaber. — Paintings of this dance in various places. — At Minden ; Church-yard of the Innocents at Paris ; Dijon ; Basle ; Klingenthal ; Lubeck ; Leipsic ; Anneerg; Dresden; Erfurth ; Nuremberg;

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