Merian (Matthaeus) Todten-Tantz, wie derselbe in der löblichen und weit-berühmten Stadt Basel, als ein Spiegel menschlicher Beschaffenheit…, engraved hand-coloured title within allegorical border, 44 engraved plates, all but 2 hand-coloured, 17 of the illustrations cut and pasted onto an inserted leaf with the printed verse captions repeated in manuscript, additional architectural or decorative borders, staining and foxing, contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt, hinge repaired, 4to, John B. Andrea & H. Hort, Frankfurt, 1725. *** Frequently reprinted and copied for the succeeding 150 years, this edition is the most recognisable of all Baroque editions of the Dance of Death. The Dance of Death was a series painted in fresco in the 15th century on the walls of the Predigerkirche, influencing several printed editions, notably Holbein's. Yet the copies produced by Matthaeus Merian in 1616, are considered the most faithful renderings of the Basel frescoes, before they were destroyed in 1805. Merian augmented each image in the 1649 suite with sky, clouds and background detail. Merian's Adam and Eve plate, and his famous death's-head self-portrait plate appear here.
Merian (Matthaeus) Todten-Tantz, wie derselbe in der löblichen und weit-berühmten Stadt Basel, als ein Spiegel menschlicher Beschaffenheit…, engraved hand-coloured title within allegorical border, 44 engraved plates, all but 2 hand-coloured, 17 of the illustrations cut and pasted onto an inserted leaf with the printed verse captions repeated in manuscript, additional architectural or decorative borders, staining and foxing, contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt, hinge repaired, 4to, John B. Andrea & H. Hort, Frankfurt, 1725. *** Frequently reprinted and copied for the succeeding 150 years, this edition is the most recognisable of all Baroque editions of the Dance of Death. The Dance of Death was a series painted in fresco in the 15th century on the walls of the Predigerkirche, influencing several printed editions, notably Holbein's. Yet the copies produced by Matthaeus Merian in 1616, are considered the most faithful renderings of the Basel frescoes, before they were destroyed in 1805. Merian augmented each image in the 1649 suite with sky, clouds and background detail. Merian's Adam and Eve plate, and his famous death's-head self-portrait plate appear here.
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