Danse Macabre Tapestries

Danse Macabre / Death Dance. 3 skeletons dancing the dance of death. We are all the same, we all are going to die one day.

Let the Danse Macabre Begin!

Elegant Skeletons Dancing Modern Style

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Danse Macabre

Word Halloween with danse macabre letters and skulls

The Danse Macabre (from the French language), also called the Dance of Death, is an artistic genre of allegory of the Late Middle Ages on the universality of death: no matter one's station in life, the Dance Macabre unites all. The Danse Macabre consists of the dead or a personification of death summoning representatives from all walks of life to dance along to the grave, typically with a pope, emperor, king, child, and laborer. It was produced as memento mori, to remind people of the fragility of their lives and how vain were the glories of earthly life.[1] Its origins are postulated from illustrated sermon texts; the earliest recorded visual scheme was a now-lost mural at Holy Innocents' Cemetery in Paris dating from 1424 to 1425.

According to legend, Death appears at midnight every year on Halloween. Death calls forth the dead from their graves to dance for him while he plays his fiddle (here represented by a solo violin). His skeletons dance for him until the rooster crows at dawn, when they must return to their graves until the next year.

Christie Adams 2022

Danse Macabre Red

Danse Macabre, or Dance of Death, the symbol of mortality that comes for us all, no matter who we are.

The ghoulish characters from Duran's amazing Halloween video Danse Macabre

psychodelic danse macabre

Imagine if your favorite Duran concert merch became UNDEAD

mediaeval danse macabre design

Original drawing from my 2017 inktober series.

Woodcut from the Latin edition of 'The Dance of Death' printed in Paris, France, in 1490 by Guyot Marchand for the publisher Geoffroi de Marnef.

Japanese "danse macabre" design.

papa emeritus 0 and sister imperator from the band ghost

Danse Macabre of Skeletons

CELTIC FROST - DANSE MACABRE

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.”

Unleash your inner artist!

Two very evil-looking death moths with skulls and eyeballs engaged in a sort of dance of death... danse macabre.

Japanese "danse macabre" design.

Unleash your inner artist!

Death sketches a macabre dance step to prepare for the Halloween festivities! [ PROTECTED DESIGN ]

Woodcut from the Latin edition of 'The Dance of Death' printed in Paris in 1490 by Guyot Marchand for the publisher Geoffroi de Marnef. The image itself depicts a haunting scene filled with symbolism and macabre beauty. The dance of death unfolds before our eyes as skeletal figures take center stage- ach skeleton has its own unique personality, as well as the hermit who stands tall amidst the chaos.

Amidst the forest's darkness, a skeleton rose from the earth at midnight. It danced with an ethereal grace to a haunting melody, leaving onlookers in awe and fear of its spectral presence.

It's a party. Well, it's not a real party if there isn't any dancing. So dance to the fiddle player who always gets paid in the end. Original image from The Cleveland Museum of Art Creative Commons, Dance of Death: Death the Strangler by Alfred Rethel, 1850, Woodcut, modified and colored (https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1939.620)

Saint-Saëns - Danse Macabre & Francisco Goya - Saturn Devouring His Son

Dance of Death - Daniel Chodowiecki, 1791.

Death Visits

The dance of death at Basel: death and the merchant - Hieronymus Hess.

Knight, Death and the Devil - Albrecht Durer, 1513.