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Friday, August 18, 2023

The Paris Dance of Death 1


Guyot Marchant, The Paris Dance of Death: The Musicians (1485) 

The oldest known Dance of Death series, these were originally paintings, completed in 1425, on the walls of St. Innocent's Cemetery in Paris. 

The walls were destroyed to widen a road in 1669, but Guyot Marchant copied these woodcuts in 1485. 



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