Danse Macabre

The Dance of Death (1493) by Michael Wolgemut, from the Liber chronicarum by Hartmann Schedel.

Dance of Death (French: Danse Macabrecode: fr is deprecated ; Italian: Danza Macabracode: it is deprecated ; German: Totentanzcode: de is deprecated ) is a late-medieval allegory on death: no matter who a person is, the dance of death unites all.

Danse Macabre Media

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  Charnel house at Holy Innocents' Cemetery, Paris, with mural of a Danse Macabre (1424–25)

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  An abbot and a bailiff, dancing the Dance Macabre, miniature from a 1486 book, printed by Guy Marchant in Paris

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  Simon Marmion: Right wing (inside) of the former high altar of the abbey church of St-Bertin in St-Omer (1455–1459) with the depiction of a dance of death fresco in the cloister gallery

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  From Holbein's Simolachri, Historie, e Figure de la Morte (in Lyone Appresso Giovan Frellone, 1549)

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  Danse Macabre, a reminder of the universality of death in the St. Peter and St. Paul church, Vilnius

Other websites

• A collection of historical images of the Danse Macabre at Cornell's The Fantastic in Art and Fiction