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A collection of high-quality 1000-piece jigsaws featuring popular
fine-art paintings.
'The underlying message of the series is, of course, that Death
comes for us all, and if it interrupts the recreations of the
wealthy rather more insolently than those of the poor, then let
that be a lesson to us' Nick Lezard, Guardian A new departure in
Penguin Classics: a book containing one of the greatest of all
Renaissance woodcut sequences - Holbein's bravura danse macabre One
of Holbein's first great triumphs, The Dance of Death is an
incomparable sequence of tiny woodcuts showing the folly of human
greed and pride, with each image packed with drama, wit and horror
as a skeleton mocks and terrifies everyone from the emperor to a
ploughman. Taking full advantage of the new literary culture of the
early 16th century, The Dance of Death took an old medieval theme
and made it new. This edition of The Dance of Death reproduces a
complete set from the British Museum, with many details highlighted
and examples of other works in this grisly field. Ulinka Rublack
introduces the woodcuts with a remarkable essay on the late
medieval danse macabre and the world Holbein lived in.
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