老彼得·勃魯蓋爾 《死亡的勝利 》,約1562年繪製
死亡之舞 (法語:Danse Macabre )是歐洲中世紀後期 出現的一種藝術體裁,是Memento mori 的一種,見於各類繪畫作品中。其常見的主題是擬人化的死亡(如骷髏),寓意着生命的脆弱和世間眾生註定死亡的命運[ 1] 。現存最早的死亡之舞藝術作品見於巴黎聖無辜者公墓 的壁畫(1424-25)。
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A collection of historical images of the Danse Macabre (頁面存檔備份 ,存於網際網路檔案館 ) at Cornell's The Fantastic in Art and Fiction
Holbein's Totentanz (頁面存檔備份 ,存於網際網路檔案館 )
Les simulachres & historiees faces de la mort: commonly called "The dance of death'' - 1869 photographic reproduction of original by Holbein Society with woodcuts, plus English translations and a biography of Holbein.
[1] (頁面存檔備份 ,存於網際網路檔案館 ) Sophie Oosterwijk (2009), '"Fro Paris to Inglond"? The danse macabre in text and image in late-medieval England', Doctoral thesis Leiden University available online.
Images of Danse Macabre (2001) (頁面存檔備份 ,存於網際網路檔案館 ) Conceptual performance by Antonia Svobodová and Mirek Vodrážka in Čajovna Pod Stromem Čajovým in Prague 22 May 2001'.
Pierre Desrey , Chorea ab eximio Macabro / versibus Alemanicis edita et a Petro Desrey ... nuper emendata –透過Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress
Dance of Death, Chorea, ab eximio Macabro versibus Alemanicis edita et a Petro Desrey ... nuper emendata. Paris, Gui Marchand, for Geoffroy de Marnef, 15 Oct. (Id. Oct.) 1490. From the Rare Book and Special Collections Division (頁面存檔備份 ,存於網際網路檔案館 ) at the Library of Congress
An introduction to the Dance of Death , Art & Design Library, Central Library, Edinburgh