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Excerpt from The Dance of Death After what has been said, it becomes necessary to attempt at least to give some reason for the almost universal opinion, that these designs were the offspring of Holbein's pencil. Most of those writers who have described the town of Basil, as well as the compilers of the lives of the painters, speak of a Dance of Death by Holbein, some re ferring to the old Dance of Macaber, and others to the more modern one; but it is not difficult to see, that they have but transcribed from each other, without taking any pains to examine the subject. Certain it is, however, that Holbein did paint a Death's Dance in its improved state, and likewise more than once. Bishop Burnet, in his travels in Switzerland, speaks of a Dance of. 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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Book category Books in English The arts Art forms Painting & paintings

• Full title: The Dance of Death (Classic Reprint)
• Author: Hans Holbein
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 142
• EAN: 9781333423445
• ISBN: 1333423446
• ID: 14197970
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Weight: 201 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 7 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. August 2016

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