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Danse Macabre: Equality in Death in Medieval Istrian Frescoes, by Jelena Dunato

  The Danse Macabre—the Dance of Death—is an iconographic theme that first appears in fifteenth-century European art. It shows skeletons or cadavers leading a procession of the living from all walks of life towards the grave. From the modern perspective, this may seem gruesome, even morbid. Most images of (Western) death are banned in the …

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