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| [Chapter I.] |
| Personification of Death, and other modes of representing it among the Ancients.—Same subject during theMiddle Ages.—Erroneous notions respecting Death.—Monumental absurdities.—Allegorical pageant of theDance of Death represented in early times by living persons in churches and cemeteries.—Some of thesedances described.—Not unknown to the Ancients.—Introduction of the infernal, or dance of Macaber | [1] |
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| [Chapter II.] |
| Places where the Dance of Death was sculptured or depicted.—Usually accompanied by verses describingthe several characters.—Other metrical compositions on the Dance | [17] |
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| [Chapter III.] |
| Macaber not a German or any other poet, but a nonentity.—Corruption and confusion respecting thisword.—Etymological errors concerning it.—How connected with the Dance.—Trois mors et trois vifs.—Orgagna’spainting in the Campo Santo at Pisa.—Its connection with the trois mors et trois vifs, as wellas with the Macaber Dance.—Saint Macarius the real Macaber.—Paintings of this dance in various places.—AtMinden; Church-yard of the Innocents at Paris; Dijon; Basle; Klingenthal; Lubeck; Leipsic; Anneberg;Dresden; Erfurth; Nuremberg; Berne; Lucerne; Amiens; Rouen; Fescamp; Blois; Strasburg; Berlin; Vienna; Holland; Italy; Spain | [28] |
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| [Chapter IV.] |
| Macaber Dance in England.—St. Paul’s.—Salisbury.—Wortley-hall.—Hexham.—Croydon.—Towerof London.—Lines in Pierce Plowman’s Vision supposed to refer to it | [51] |
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| [Chapter V.] |
| List of editions of the Macaber Dance.—Printed Horæ that contain it.—Manuscript Horæ.—Other Manuscriptsin which it occurs.—Various articles with letter-press, not being single prints, but connected with it | [55] |
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| [Chapter VI.] |
| Hans Holbein’s connection with the Dance of Death.—A dance of peasants at Basle.—Lyons edition of theDance of Death, 1538.—Doubts as to any prior edition.—Dedication to the edition of 1538.—Mr. Ottley’sopinion of it examined.—Artists supposed to have been connected with this work.—Holbein’s namein none of the old editions.—Reperdius | [78] |
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| [Chapter VII.] |
| Holbein’s Bible cuts.—Examination of the claim of Hans Lutzenberger as to the design or execution ofthe Lyons engravings of the Dance of Death.—Other works by him | [94] |
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| [Chapter VIII.] |
| List of several editions of the Lyons work on the Dance of Death with the mark of Lutzenberger.—Copies ofthem on wood.—Copies on copper by anonymous artists.—By Wenceslaus Hollar.—Other anonymousartists.—Nieuhoff Picard.—Rusting.—Mechel.—Crozat’s drawings.—Deuchar.—Imitations of some of the subjects | [103] |
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| [Chapter IX.] |
| Further examination of Holbein’s title.—Borbonius.—Biographicalnotice of Holbein.—Painting of a Dance of Death at Whitehall by him | [138] |
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| [Chapter X.] |
| Other Dances of Death | [146] |
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| [Chapter XI.] |
| Dances of Death, with such text only as describes the subjects | [160] |
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| [Chapter XII.] |
| Books in which the subject is occasionally introduced | [168] |
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| [Chapter XIII.] |
| Books of emblems and fables.—Frontispieces and title-pages in some degree connected with the Dance of Death | [179] |
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| [Chapter XIV.] |
| Single prints connected with the Dance of Death | [188] |
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| [Chapter XV.] |
| Initial or capital Letters with the Dance of Death | [213] |
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| [Chapter XVI.] |
| Paintings.—Drawings.—Miscellaneous | [221] |
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| [Chapter XVII.] |
| Trois vifs et trois morts.—Negro figure of Death.—Danse aux Aveugles | [228] |
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| [Chapter XVIII.] |
| Errors of various writers who have introduced the subject of the Dance of Death | [233] |