Author : Hans Holbein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Dance of Death
ISBN : NYPL:33433082298138
The Dance of Death
Hans Holbein
A Dance Of Death
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Dance of Death
Douglas Preston,Lincoln Child
Author : Douglas Preston,Lincoln Child
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780759513938
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Hot on the trail of a killer in Manhattan, FBI Special Agent Pendergast must face his most brilliant and dangerous enemy: his own brother. Two brothers. One a top FBI agent. The other a brilliant, twisted criminal. An undying hatred between them. Now, a perfect crime. And the ultimate challenge: Stop me if you can...
The Dance of Death
Mark Jones
Author : Mark Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015019755985
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The Dance of Death
Hans Holbein
Author : Hans Holbein
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1539025756
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The Dance of Death Danse Macabre Hans Holbein With an introductory note by Austin Dobson Dance of Death, also called Danse Macabre, is an artistic genre of late-medieval allegory on the universality of death: no matter one's station in life, the Dance of Death unites all. The Danse Macabre consists of the dead or personified Death summoning representatives from all walks of life to dance along to the grave, typically with a pope, emperor, king, child, and labourer. They were produced as mementos mori, to remind people of the fragility of their lives and how vain were the glories of earthly life. Its origins are postulated from illustrated sermon texts; the earliest recorded visual scheme was a now-lost mural in the Saints Innocents Cemetery in Paris dating from 1424 to 1425.
The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages
Elina Gertsman
Author : Elina Gertsman
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art, Medieval
ISBN : UCSD:31822038709457
The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages by Elina Gertsman Pdf
Elina Gertsman's multifaceted study introduces readers to the imagery and texts of the Dance of Death, an extraordinary subject that first emerged in western European art and literature in the late medieval era. Conceived from the start as an inherently public image, simultaneously intensely personal and widely accessible, the medieval Dance of Death proclaimed the inevitability of death and declared the futility of human ambition. Gertsman inquires into the theological, socio-historic, literary, and artistic contexts of the Dance of Death, exploring it as a site of interaction between text, image, and beholder. Pulling together a wide variety of sources and drawing attention to those images that have slipped through the cracks of the art historical canon, Gertsman examines the visual, textual, aural, pastoral, and performative discourses that informed the creation and reception of the Dance of Death, and proposes different modes of viewing for several paintings, each of which invited the beholder to participate in an active, kinesthetic experience.
A Dance With Death
Anne Noggle
Author : Anne Noggle
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 1585441775
A Dance With Death by Anne Noggle Pdf
For their heroism and success against the enemy, two of the women's regiments were honored by designation as "Guard" regiments. At least thirty women were decorated with the gold star of Hero of the Soviet Union, their nation's highest award.
Dance of Death
Fritz Eichenberg
Author : Fritz Eichenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015007250908
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The English Dance of Death
William Combe
Author : William Combe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1815
Category : Artists' illustrated books
ISBN : UCD:31175035231425
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The Dance of Death in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Andrea Kiss,Kathleen Pribyl
Author : Andrea Kiss,Kathleen Pribyl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429956836
The Dance of Death in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe by Andrea Kiss,Kathleen Pribyl Pdf
This volume investigates environmental and political crises that occurred in Europe during the late Middle Ages and the early Modern Period, and considers their effects on people’s lives. At this time, the fragile human existence was imagined as a ‘Dance of Death’, where anyone, regardless of social status or age, could perish unexpectedly. This book covers events ranging from cooling temperatures and the onset of the Little Ice Age, to the frequent occurrence of epidemic disease, pest infestations, food shortages and famines. Covering the mid-fourteenth to mid-seventeenth centuries, this collection of essays considers a range of countries between Iceland (to the north), Italy (to the south), France (to the west) and the westernmost parts of Russia (to the east). This wide-reaching volume considers how deeply climate variability and changes affected and changed society in the late medieval to early modern period, and asks what factors, other than climate, interfered in the development of environmental stress and socio-economic crises. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Environmental and Climate History, Environmental Humanities, Medieval and Early Modern History and Historical Geography, as well as Climate Change and Environmental Sciences.
Berlin Soldier
Helmut Altner
Author : Helmut Altner
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750979795
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This book is an explosive memoir of a 17 year old German boy called up to fight in the last weeks of the Second World War. This is a teenager's vivid account of his experiences as a conscript during the final desperate weeks of the Third Reich, during which he experienced training immediately behind the front line east of Berlin, was caught up in the massive Soviet assault on Berlin from the Oder, retreated successfully and then took part in the fight for the western suburb of Spandau, where he became one of the only two survivors of his company of seventeen year-olds.
A Dance of Death
David Dalglish
Author : David Dalglish
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-22
Category : Assassins
ISBN : 1466461373
A Dance of Death by David Dalglish Pdf
"Haern is the King's Watcher, protector against thieves and nobles who might fill the night with blood. Yet hundreds of miles away, an assassin known as the Wraith has begun slaughtering those in power, and leaving the symbol of the Watcher in mockery. When Haern travels south to confront his copycat killer, he finds a city ruled by the corrupt, the greedy, and the dangerous. Rioters fill the streets, and the threat of war with the mysterious elves hangs over all. To stop it, Haern must confront the deadly Wraith, and the man he might become."--Publisher's description.
Dance of Death
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781613745199
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John Fahey hovers ghostlike in the sound of almost every acoustic guitarist who came after him. He was to the solo acoustic guitar what Hendrix was to the electric: the man whom all subsequent musicians had to listen to. Fahey made more than forty albums between 1959 and his death in 2001, fusing folk, blues, and experimental composition, taking familiar American sounds and making them new. Yet Fahey’s life and art remain largely unexamined. His memoir and liner notes were largely fiction. His real story has never been told—until now. Journalist Steve Lowenthal has spent years talking with Fahey’s producers, friends, peers, wives, business partners, and many others. He describes how Fahey introduced pre-war blues to a broader public; how his independent label, Takoma, set new standards; how he battled his demons, including stage fright, alcohol, and prescription pills; how he ended up homeless and mentally unbalanced; and how, despite his troubles, he managed to found a new record label, Revenant, that won Grammys and remains critically revered. This portrait of a troubled and troubling man in a constant state of creative flux is not only a biography, but also the compelling story of a great American outcast. Steve Lowenthal started and ran the music magazine Swingset; his writing has also been published in Fader, Spin, Vice, and the Village Voice. He lives in New York City. David Fricke is a senior editor at Rolling Stone magazine.
The Physician of the Dance of Death
Aldred Scott Warthin
Author : Aldred Scott Warthin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X000642345
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A Russian Dance of Death
Dederich Navall,Dietrich Neufeld
Author : Dederich Navall,Dietrich Neufeld
Publisher : Mennonite Literary Society and University of Manitoba
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015021955086
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The Dance of Death
MARTIN. ROWSON
Author : MARTIN. ROWSON
Publisher : SelfMadeHero
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1910593745
The Dance of Death by MARTIN. ROWSON Pdf
Hans Holbein's 16th-century masterpiece, The Dance of Death, reminds its readers that no one, no matter their rank or position, can escape the great leveller, Death. In a foreboding series of woodcuts, Death, depicted as a skeleton, intrudes on the lives of people from every level of society, from the sailor to the judge, the ploughman to the king. By highlighting our common fate, Holbein exposes the folly of greed and ambition, and in doing so brings a corrupt and callous elite crashing back down to earth. In this darkly satirical update, Guardiancartoonist Martin Rowson sharpens and reshapes Holbein's vision for the 21st century. Death seizes the City banker by his braces and offers a light to the oligarch; it joins the surgeon in theatre and the Hollywood star on the red carpet. Filled with wit and doom-laden drama, Martin Rowson's The Dance of Deathis a masterful reimagining of a book which, in its uncompromising treatment of the rich and powerful, paved the way for the great, levelling craft of political cartooning.