The dance of death: Adam tills the soil. Woodcut by Hans Holbein the younger.

  • Holbein, Hans, 1497?-1543.
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Maledictio. Maledicta terra in opere tuo, in laboribus comedes cunctis diebus vitæ tuæ, donec reuertaris & c. Gen. III. Sit maledicta tuo sterilis pro crimine tellus. Vita tibi multi plena laboris erit: vita tibi multi plena laboris erit: donec in exigua te Mors tellure reponet, quod fueras primū, tum quoq; puluis eris.

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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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