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Medieval Macabre Image 148. Image Search Results. Category:Danse Macabre (Holbein) - Wikimedia Commons - StumbleUpon. Photography : milan, italy, 2009. The Gashlycrumb Tinies. Danse Macabre. Paintings[edit] The earliest recorded visual example is from the cemetery of the Church of the Holy Innocents in Paris (1424–25). There were also painted schemes in Basel (the earliest dating from c.1440); a series of paintings on canvas by Bernt Notke, in Lübeck (1463); the initial fragment of the original Bernt Notke painting (accomplished at the end of the 15th century) in the St Nicholas' Church, Tallinn, Estonia; the painting at the back wall of the chapel of Sv. Marija na Škrilinama in the Istrian town of Beram (1471), painted by Vincent of Kastav; the painting in the Holy Trinity Church in Hrastovlje in Istria by John of Kastav (1490).

There was also a Dance of Death painted in the 1540s on the walls of the cloister of St Paul's Cathedral, London with texts by John Lydgate, which was destroyed in 1549. Danse macabre in St Maria in Bienno. A danse macabre painting may show a round dance headed by Death or a chain of alternating dead and live dancers. I've taken you by the hand.