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

  • Holbein, Hans, 1497?-1543.
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1 print : woodcut ; image 6.5 x 4.9 cm

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Medice, cura teipsum. Lucae IIII. Tu bene cognoscis morbos, artemq́; medendi qua simul ægrotis subueniatur, habes. Sed caput ô stupidum, cùm fata aliena retardes ignoras morbi quo moriere genus.

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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Wellcome Collection 29274i

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