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For Holbein's Dance of Death is not, like the others, either a great fresco painting, or a series of sculptures; it is not a painting at all, but merely a series of very small woodcuts, fifty-three in number, forty-six of which were published at Lyons in 1538, and the whole afterwards at Bâle in 1554, under the title, Simulachres de la Mort, Icones Mortis: that is, in French and Latin, "Images of Death," for the title "Dance of Death" is of recent origin.
"It is too grim a picture for these walls, and stares at its companions like the mummy at Egyptian banquets." "On the contrary, it impresses me as grotesque in comparison with Durer's 'Melancholy, yonder, or with Holbein's 'Les Simulachres de la mort."
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