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Excerpt from Emblems of Mortality; Representing, by Numerous Engravings, Death: Seizing All Ranks and Conditions of People; Imitated From a Painting in the Cemetery of the Dominician Church, at Basil, in Switzerland The work here presented to the reader, is a copy, with a small variation, of one well known to the curious by the title of Imagines Mortis, or, the Images of Death; which is reported to be in reality indebted for its existence to the calamity of a plague. Pope Eugenius IV., having summoned a council to meet at the city of Basil, in Switzerland, it accordingly met there in the year 1431, and continued to sit for seventeen years. At this council the Pope himself, and many princes, were present. During the sitting of this council, the city of Basil was visited with a plague, which carried off many of the nobility; and, on the cessation of the distemper, the surviving members of the council, with a view to perpetuate the memory of this event, caused to be painted on the walls of the cemetery, a Dance of Death, representing all ranks of persons as individually seized by him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Full title: Emblems of Mortality; Representing, by Numerous Engravings, Death
• Subtitle: Seizing All Ranks and Conditions of People; Imitated from a Painting in the Cemetery of the Dominician Church, at Basil, in Switzerland (Classic Reprint)
• Author: Hans Holbein
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 110
• EAN: 9781331543336
• ISBN: 9781331543336
• ID: 09762036
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Weight: 159 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 6 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. July 2015

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