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 HolbeinDouce, Francis
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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
Douce, Francis
Bible. Old Testament -- Illustrations; Dance of death
[58] Heinecken Dictionn. des Artistes, iii. 67, et iv. 595. He follows
Keysler's error respecting Hans Bock.
[59] Peintre graveur, ix. 398.
[60] Essai sur l'Orig. de la Gravure, i. 120.
[61] Heinecken Dictionn. des Artistes, i. 222.
[62] Recherches, &c. p. 71.
[63] Heller Geschiche der holtzchein kunst. Bamberg, 1823, 12mo. p. 126.
[64] Basle Guide Book.
[65] Recherches, 11 et seq.
[66] More on the subject of the Lubeck Dance of Death may be found in 1.
An anonymous work, which has on the last leaf, "Dodendantz, anno domini
MCCCCXCVI. Lubeck." 2. "De Dodendantz fan Kaspar Scheit, na der utgave
fan, 1558, unde de Lubecker fan, 1463." This is a poem of four sheets in
small 8vo. without mention of the place where printed. 3. Some account of
this painting by Ludwig Suhl. Lubeck, 1783, 4to. 4. A poem, in rhyme, with
wood-cuts, on 34 leaves, in 8vo. It is fully described from the Helms.
library in Brun's Beitrage zu krit. Bearb. alter handschr. p. 321 et seq.
5. Jacob à Mellen Grundliche Nachbricht von Lubeck, 1713, 8vo. p. 84. 6.
Schlott Lubikischers Todtentantz. 1701. 8vo. 7. Berkenmeyer, le curieux
antiquaire, 8vo. p. 530; and, 8. Nugent's Travels, i. 102. 8vo.
[67] Biblioth. Med. et inf. ætat. v. 2.
[68] Travels, i. 195.
[69] Recherches, xlii.
[70] Pilkington's Dict. of Painters, p. 307, edit. Fuseli, who probably
follows Fuesli's work on the Painters. Merian, Topogr. Helvetiæ.
[71] Peignot Recherches, xlv. xlvi.
[72] Rivoire descr. de l'église cathédrale d'Amiens. Amiens, 1806. 8vo.
[73] Recherches, xlvii.
[74] Recherches, xlviii.
[75] Recherches sur les antiquités de Vienne. 1659. 12mo, p. 15.
[76] Dr. Cogan's Tour to the Rhine, ii. 127.
[77] Travels, iii. 328, edit. 4to.
[78] Survay of London, p. 615, edit. 1618, 4to.
[79] In Tottel's edition these verses are accompanied with a single
wood-cut of Death leading up all ranks of mortals. This was afterwards
copied by Hollar, as to general design, in Dugdale's St. Paul's, and in
the Monasticon.
[80] Annales, p. 596, edit. 1631. folio. Sir Thomas More, treating of the
remembrance of Death, has these words: "But if we not only here this word
Death, but also let sink into our heartes, the very fantasye and depe
imaginacion thereof, we shall parceive therby that we wer never so gretly
moved by the beholding of the _Daunce of Death pictured in Poules_, as we
shal fele ourself stered and altered by the feling of that imaginacion in
our hertes. And no marvell. For those pictures expresse only y{e} lothely
figure of our dead bony bodies, biten away y{e} flesh," &c.--Works, p. 77,
edit. 1557, folio.
[81] Heylin's Hist. of the Reformation, p. 73.
[82] Cotton MS. Vesp. A. xxv. fo. 181.
[83] Leland's Itin. vol. iv. part i. p. 69.--Meas. for Meas. Act iii. sc.
1.
[84] Hutchinson's Northumberland, i. 98.
[85] Warton's H. E. Poetry, ii. 43, edit. 8vo.
[86] And see a portion of Orgagna's painting at the Campo Santo at Pisa,
mentioned before in p. 33.
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