Dance of Death: The Sailor
c. 1526
- Medium
- woodcut
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-205053
Dance of Death is the most celebrated series of woodcuts designed by Holbein. The forty-one blocks were cut by Hans Lützelburger in the years immediately before his death in 1526, though the set was not published until 1538. Dance of Death originated as a drama in the middle of the 14th century. Following widespread epidemics such as the black plague, these plays took place in a cemetery or churchyard. Actors, dressed in pale costumes painted to resemble skeletons, personified Death and summoned a group of people from all social classes in a dancelike procession. In a period when the life spa…
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, 1929.163
Registry history
- c. 1526 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints
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