https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=40&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1538&output=atom2024-03-28T11:33:20-04:00Omekahttps://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/2471Les Simulachres & Historiees Faces de la Mort]]>2022-11-26T12:54:36-05:00
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1934The anonymous Lyon edition of the "Dance of Death," the first to be illustrated with woodcuts designed by Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1498–1543), was banned by the Faculty of Theology in 1551 because it parodied the morals of the clergy and all secular walks of life. Accompanying each woodcut is a related passage of Scripture in Latin, with its equivalent in French verse.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:29-05:00
BRA0001. [Dance of Death]. Les simulachres & historiees faces de la Mort, autant elegamment pourtraictes, que artificiellement imaginées. Lyon: [Melchior and Gaspar Trechsel], 1538.
]]>https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/113First publication of Holbein's sequence of images of Death. The New Married Lady (The Noblewoman). The Duchess. The woodcuts are supposed to have been executed from Hans Holbein's designs by Hans Lützelburger. Accompanying each cut is a related passage of Scripture in Latin, with a quatrain giving its equivalent rendering in French Bound by "Chambolle-Duru" in dark green morocco with gilt title on spine, marbled endpapers, colored thread bookmark.]]>2022-11-26T12:54:01-05:00