The Dance Of Death
Subtitle: 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
Publisher: William Pickering
Published: 1833
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: Chapter I.; title: 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; title: Chapter II.; title: 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; title: Chapter III.; title: Macaber not a German or any other poet, but a non-entity. — Corruption and confusion respecting this word. — Etymological errors concerning it. — How connected with the Dance. — Trois mors et trois vifs. — Or^agna's painting in the Campo Santo at Pisa. — Its connection with the trois mors et trois vifs, as well as with the Macaber Dance. — Saint Macarius the real Macaber. — Paintings of this dance in various places. — At Minden ; Church-yard of the Innocents at Paris ; Dijon ; Basle ; Klingenthal ; Lubeck ; Leipsic ; Anneerg; Dresden; Erfurth ; Nuremberg; Berne; Lucerne; Amiens; Rouen; Fescamp; Blois; Strasburg; Berlin; Vienna; Holland; Italy; Spain 28; title: Chapter IV.; title: Macaber Dance in England. — St. Paul's. — Salisbury. — Wortley-hall. — Hexham. — Croydon. — Tower of London. — Lines in Pierce Plowman's Vision supposed to refer to it 51; title: Chapter V.; title: List of editions of the Macaber Dance. — Printed Horee that contain it. — Manuscript Horee. — Other Manuscripts in which it occurs. — Various articles with letterpress, not being single prints, but connected with it 55; title: Chapter VI.; title: Hans Holbein's connection with the Dance of Death. — A dance of peasants at Basle. — Lyons edition of the Dance of Death, 1538. — Doubts as to any prior edition. — Dedication to the edition of 1538. — Mr. Ottley's opinion of it examined. — Artists supposed to have been connected with this work. — Holbein's name in none of the old editions. — Reperdius 78; title: Chapter VII.; title: Holbein's Bible cuts. — Examination of the claim of Hans Lutzenberger as to the design or execution of the Lyons engravings of the Dance of Death. — Other works by him 94; title: Chapter VIII.; title: List of several editions of the Lyons work on the Dance of Death with the mark of Lutzenberger. — Copies of them on wood. — Copies on copper by anonymous artists. — By Wenceslaus Hollar. — Other anonymous artists. — Nieuhoff Picard. — Rusting. — Mechel. — Crozat's drawings. — Deuchar. — Imitations of some of the subjects 103; title: Chapter IX.; title: Further examination of Holbein's title. — Borbonius.— Biographical notice of Holbein. — Painting of a Dance of Death at Whitehall by him 138; title: Chapter X.; title: Other Dances of Death 146; title: Chapter XI.; title: Dances of Death, with such text only as describes the subjects 160; title: Chapter XII.; title: Books in which the subject is occasionally introduced 168; title: Chapter XIII.; title: Books of emblems and fables. — Frontispieces and title-pages in some degree connected with the Dance of Death 179; title: Chapter XIV.; title: Single prints connected with the Dance of Death 188; title: Chapter XV,; title: Inital or capital Letters with the Dance of Death 213; title: Chapter XVI.; title: Paintings. — Drawings. — Miscellaneous 221; title: Chapter XVII.; title: Trois vifs et trois morts. — Negro figure of Death. Danse aux Aveugles 228; title: Chapter XVIII.; title: Errors of various writers who have introduced the subject of the Dance of Death 233; title: ERRATA.; title: Page 7, line 25, for Boistuan read Boistuau.; title: 7, ... 26, for Prodigeuses read Prodigieuseu; title: 28, ... 14, read in Holland, &c.; title: 32, ... 23, for Lamorensi read Zamorens; title: 81, ... 4, for /ex read sex.; title: 88, ... 10, after difficulty add ?; title: 89, ... 21, after works add "; title: 180, ... 23, for Typotia read Typotii.; title: 197, ... 8, for Stradamus read Stradanus.