{"product_id":"2940014094139","title":"The Dance of Death","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                                      Page\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Personification of Death, and other modes of representing it\u003cbr\u003e  among the Ancients.--Same subject during the Middle Ages.--\u003cbr\u003e  Erroneous notions respecting Death.--Monumental\u003cbr\u003e  absurdities.--Allegorical pageant of the Dance of Death\u003cbr\u003e  represented in early times by living persons in churches and\u003cbr\u003e  cemeteries.--Some of these dances described.--Not unknown to\u003cbr\u003e  the Ancients.--Introduction of the infernal, or dance of\u003cbr\u003e  Macaber                                                                1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER II.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Places where the Dance of Death was sculptured or depicted.--\u003cbr\u003e  Usually accompanied by verses describing the several\u003cbr\u003e  characters.--Other metrical compositions on the Dance                 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER III.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Macaber not a German or any other poet, but a nonentity.--\u003cbr\u003e  Corruption and confusion respecting this word.--Etymological\u003cbr\u003e  errors concerning it.--How connected with the Dance.--Trois\u003cbr\u003e  mors et trois vifs.--Orgagna's painting in the Campo Santo at\u003cbr\u003e  Pisa.--Its connection with the trois mors et trois vifs, as\u003cbr\u003e  well as with the Macaber Dance.--Saint Macarius the real\u003cbr\u003e  Macaber.--Paintings of this dance in various places.--At\u003cbr\u003e  Minden; Church-yard of the Innocents at Paris; Dijon; Basle;\u003cbr\u003e  Klingenthal; Lubeck; Leipsic; Anneberg; Dresden; Erfurth;\u003cbr\u003e  Nuremberg; Berne; Lucerne; Amiens; Rouen; Fescamp; Blois;\u003cbr\u003e  Strasburg; Berlin; Vienna; Holland; Italy; Spain                      28\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER IV.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Macaber Dance in England.--St. Paul's.--Salisbury.--\u003cbr\u003e  Wortley-hall.--Hexham.--Croydon.--Tower of London.--Lines in\u003cbr\u003e  Pierce Plowman's Vision supposed to refer to it                       51\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER V.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  List of editions of the Macaber Dance.--Printed Horae that\u003cbr\u003e  contain it.--Manuscript Horae.--Other Manuscripts in which it\u003cbr\u003e  occurs.--Various articles with letter-press, not being single\u003cbr\u003e  prints, but connected with it                                         55\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER VI.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Hans Holbein's connection with the Dance of Death.--A dance\u003cbr\u003e  of peasants at Basle.--Lyons edition of the Dance of Death,\u003cbr\u003e  1538.--Doubts as to any prior edition.--Dedication to the\u003cbr\u003e  edition of 1538.--Mr. Ottley's opinion of it examined.--\u003cbr\u003e  Artists supposed to have been connected with this work.--\u003cbr\u003e  Holbein's name in none of the old editions.--Reperdius                78\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER VII.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Holbein's Bible cuts.--Examination of the claim of Hans\u003cbr\u003e  Lutzenberger as to the design or execution of the Lyons\u003cbr\u003e  engravings of the Dance of Death.--Other works by him                 94\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER VIII.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  List of several editions of the Lyons work on the Dance of\u003cbr\u003e  Death with the mark of Lutzenberger.--Copies of them on\u003cbr\u003e  wood.--Copies on copper by anonymous artists.--By Wenceslaus\u003cbr\u003e  Hollar.--Other anonymous artists.--Nieuhoff Picard.--\u003cbr\u003e  Rusting.--Mechel.--Crozat's drawings.--Deuchar.--Imitations\u003cbr\u003e  of some of the subjects                                              103\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER IX.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Further examination of Holbein's title.--Borbonius.--\u003cbr\u003e  Biographical notice of Holbein.--Painting of a Dance of Death\u003cbr\u003e  at Whitehall by him                                                  138\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER X.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Other Dances of Death                                                146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER XI.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Dances of Death, with such text only as describes the subjects       160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER XII.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Books in which the subject is occasionally introduced                168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER XIII.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Books of emblems and fables.--Frontispieces and title-pages\u003cbr\u003e  in some degree connected with the Dance of Death                     179\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER XIV.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Single prints connected with the Dance of Death                      188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER XV.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Initial or capital Letters with the Dance of Death                   213\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER XVI.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Paintings.--Drawings.--Miscellaneous                                 221\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER XVII.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Trois vifs et trois morts.--Negro figure of Death.--Danse aux\u003cbr\u003e  Aveugles                                                             228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  CHAPTER XVIII.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Errors of various writers who have introduced the subject of\u003cbr\u003e  the Dance of Death                                                   233","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47073869725936,"sku":"2940014094139","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014094139_p0.jpg?v=1763600572","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014094139","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}