The dance of death: the ploughman. Woodcut by Hans Holbein the younger.

  • Holbein, Hans, 1497?-1543.
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1 print : woodcut ; image 6.6 x 5 cm

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In sudore vultus tui vesceris pane tuo. Gene. I. Ipse tibi multo panem sudore parabis, præbebit uictum nec nisi cultus ager. Post uarios usus rerum uitæq́; labores finiet ærumnas Mors uiolenta tuas.

References note

A.S. Warthin, The physician of the dance of death; a historical study of the evolution of the dance of death mythus in art, New York 1931, pp. 34-56
W.L. Gundersheimer, The dance of death by Hans Holbein the younger, New York 1971, pp. vii-xiii

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