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

  • Holbein, Hans, 1497?-1543.
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Mulieres opulẽtæ surgite, & audite vocem meam: Post dies, & annum, & vos conturbemini. Esaiae XXXII. Huc etiam dominæ matronaq́; diues adeste, sic etnum uobis mortua turba refert. Post hilares annos & inanis gaudia mundi turbabit Mortis corpora uestra dolor.

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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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