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

· 1834

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 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…

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