The Dance of Death
A 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 ma…
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- ISBN: 978-0-14-139683-5
- EAN: 9780141396835
- Produktnummer: 19802207
- Verlag: Penguin
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 432 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 109'095 KB
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Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543) was one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century, whose paintings of monarchs, noblemen and merchants have left an incomparably vivid picture of an era.Ulinka Rublack is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College. Her books include Reformation Europe, Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe and The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler's Fight for his Mother. She is the editor of The Concise Companion to History and (with Maria Hayward) of The First Book of Fashion.
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