Our Mortal Waltz: The Dance of Death Across Centuries
Thursday 11 July 2024 at 15:54
The sight of a skeletal corpse rarely inspires a rollicking jig. Yet for more than half a millennium, the dance of death in European visual art has imagined a tango between the quick and the dead. Allison C. Meier tracks the motif’s evolution across history, discovering how — through times of disease, war, and economic inequality — printmaking offered a means to both critique social ills and reflect upon new forms of human devastation.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/our-mortal-waltz-the-dance-of-death-across-centuries